That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Fossils discovered at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco represent the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, dating back around 300,000 years. This episode explores how these finds reshaped ideas about human ...

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

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 ...

(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, genetic ...

The 300,000-year-old fossils discovered in Morocco had modern faces and more primitive brains The 300,000-year-old fossils discovered in Morocco had modern faces and more primitive brains ...

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 ...

Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of modern human fossils. These bones are from "early anatomically modern" humans – our own species, Homo sapiens, with a mixture of ...

Jan. 25 (UPI) --New analysis suggests the development of the modern human brain was a late chapter in the evolutionary history of the Homo sapien. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of modern human fossils. These bones are from “early anatomically modern” humans – our own species, Homo sapiens, with a mixture of ...

The first modern humans may have emerged up to 350,000 years ago—170,000 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ancient DNA has allowed scientists to trace back the ancestry of people from ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...