The origin of our species, Homo sapiens, has puzzled paleoanthropologists for generations — and finding the answer has only gotten more complicated with the discovery of far-flung fossils and ...

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East Africa. The oldest remains currently known were discovered at Djebel Irhoud ...

Several Homo erectus skulls were recently identified as the youngest known fossils of the species, some 108,000 to 117,000 years old. These fossil replicas are housed at the University of Iowa ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, g… ...

A composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) dated to 300,000 years ago. [Photo: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig ] ...

No Homo erectus are found after this time, he explained, and there's a gap with no human activity at all until Homo sapiens turns up on Java around 39,000 years ago.

Paleoanthropologist Professor Lee Rogers Berger holds a replica of the skull of "NEO" a new skeleton fossil findings of the Homo Naledi Hominin species. Taken on May, 9 2017 in South Africa ...

Recently the Kennis brothers reconstructed the face of another modern human, Cheddar Man - the oldest nearly complete Homo sapiens skeleton found in Britain. This pioneering reconstruction was based ...

Fossils of modern-looking humans from 160,000 years ago, ... Homo sapiens. The skulls suggest ... but replicas made from them were compared by the research team with many examples of neanderthal ...

The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and becoming the only surviving species of human left today. Modern ...

Fossils from the site included several skulls with long braincases and heavy brow ridges — features of our older ancestors — but with faces, jaws and teeth that are similar to Homo sapiens.