The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the only existing members of the human family tree. However, our evolutionary journey began ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Instead, it is a tale of a family tree whose complex and bushy branches stretch over many millennia ... We know that interbreeding with these ancient humans allowed Homo sapiens to acquire genes that ...

The exact ties between archaic human lines and Homo sapiens may remain unknown, but a recent effort to analyze ancient ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has successfully sequenced the oldest known genomes of modern ... Cont ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...

Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re presumably a member of the species Homo sapiens ... be summarized in an enormous family tree. To help you explore ...

The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted ... Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around 300,000 years ago, were ...