The precise timeline of Homo sapiens' evolution in Africa remains uncertain. However, current fossil and genetic evidence suggests that modern humans and Neanderthals diverged at least 500,000 ...

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"Regarding Homo sapiens, what we say is that the dispersal of the species predates 300 000" years ago. Previously, the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains, at 195 000 years, were from Ethiopia. This led ...

A new study reveals that ancient Homo sapiens possessed a unique adaptability, thriving in diverse and challenging environments across Africa before their major dispersal around 50,000 years ago ...

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A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them adults, some children, and others so small that they have to travel on the ...

Letter Published: 17 June 1944 Evolution of Modern Man (Homo sapiens) ARTHUR KEITH Nature 153, 742 (1944) Cite this article ...

According to a new study published Wednesday in Nature, ancient Homo sapiens developed the flexibility to survive by finding food and other resources in a wide variety of difficult habitats before ...

For instance, John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is concerned about the study authors' claims that the Moroccan fossils belong to the Homo sapiens clade.

When would this recursive self-improvement stop? That deeply concerns me”. This super-intelligence hypothesis – “the AI-evolution hypothesis” – raises profound cosmologically questions.