Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going first into ...

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in ...

Every person on Earth today can trace their ancestry to Africa, where modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged at least 300,000 years ago. But our ancestor Homo erectus lived in Africa, ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Indian middle-class couples dream of foreign trips, fueled by summer vacations, enticing ads, and government servant perks.

Fire is an ancient natural phenomenon that has shaped our planet for more than 400 million years. It alters habitats, affects ...

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago.. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

Around 900,000 years ago, the global population reached a precarious low of only 1280 reproducing individuals and stayed like ...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...