Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for ...

As more Denisovan geographic markers are confirmed, and as their location and timeline continue to overlap with those of other hominins—in particular, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens—more ...

Previous research has frequently concluded that only Homo sapiens were able to adapt to such environments. Julio Mercader, Paul Durkin, and colleagues collected archaeological, geological ...

The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

Sono Luminus has announced Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the new album from intrepid composer Sean Hickey out on Friday, March 14, 2025.

Our human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone on ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... you’re presumably a member of the species Homo sapiens, one of somewhere between 5 and 100 million distinct types of organisms living on Earth ...