Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

PARIS — In 2017, paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin, now a professor at the Collège de France, shook up his discipline by pushing back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. While the ...

The skulls and bones could represent the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens, the human species ... adult mandible discovered at the site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. Credit: Jean-Jacques ...

New finds of fossils and stone tools from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco ... document important biological and behavioural changes in an early evolutionary phase of Homo sapiens.