By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with our faces.

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

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

Researchers have long thought the Levant was a key gateway for our species, Homo sapiens, and other branches of the human ...

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 ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...