A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds. The ...
Homo sapiens fossils dated to about 190,000 years ... But here’s what they get right: Humans are not descended from apes. Early humans didn’t emerge from the genetic soup of chimpanzees ...
There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...
Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...
Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans (Homo sapiens) migrating out of Africa ... rise to current populations outside Africa. This early-branching population has no descendants today.
"Early humans, more than 30,000 years ago ... to do with the fact that the first populations of modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared in Europe during this period and displaced the last European ...
There is considerable debate on when early humans developed the ability to ... The conventional belief held that only Homo sapiens could survive in these harsh ecosystems in the long term, with ...
The most striking characteristic of this previously unknown human ancestor? An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens ... say it’s too early to definitively ...
The most striking characteristic of this previously unknown human ancestor? An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving ... paleoanthropologists ...
New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that ... Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago.
Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.