New volcanic dating from Ethiopia’s Omo Kibish formation has pushed the age of Homo sapiens fossils back to at least 233,000 ...

New evidence from a cave in southern France shows that Homo sapiens arrived in Europe at least 10,000 years earlier than ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

A fatal genetic incompatibility between Neanderthals and modern humans may have hastened the extinction of our ancient ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

Sacre bleu! Big news on the early modern human front this week in France as researchers published findings that suggest Homo sapiens were actually roaming Earth about 10,000 years earlier than ...

Where do we come from? It is one of humanity’s oldest questions. For decades, the dominant narrative has placed the great exodus of modern humans—the journey that led us to colonize every continent ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a survival advantage.

A study comparing the DNA of people around the world has yielded what could be the best evidence yet that modern man first evolved in Africa and scattered to populate the planet as recently as 50,000 ...

May 11 (UPI) --The earliest modern artifacts in Europe, including blade-like tools and animal tooth pendants, were left by pioneering groups of modern humans, according to the findings of an ...

Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis – the Neanderthals.