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

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 ...

Early humans adapted to rainforest conditions far earlier than previously thought, archaeologists have discovered.

It seems more likely now that Homo sapiens came from a more extensive, pan-African homeland. "Jebel Irhoud also shows how the anatomical features that 'make' a modern human arrived bit by bit, in a ...

This discovery provides new insights into the history of human habitation in Arabia and the possible routes used by Homo sapiens in their expansion out of Africa, as noted by Bretzke. Jebel Faya ...

Today, there are more than eight billion of us. Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down.