Modern humans, or Homo sapiens, are the only living Homo species. But we haven't always been alone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Neanderthals are an extinct species of ancient humans who lived 430,000 to 40,000 years ago, while homo sapiens are modern humans. For a long time, many people believed that we evolved from ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred. About ...

Next week, Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” will get a comic treatment with the release of the first volume of “Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of ...

Research team: “This discovery reveals the world’s earliest known human fossil showing morphological traits of both of these human groups, which until recently were considered two separate human ...

Archaeologist Yossi Zaidner can’t articulate the excitement he felt when his team unearthed ancient human fossils at an open-air excavation site in Nesher Ramla, Israel. The region had been known for ...

“Homo sapiens rules the world because it is the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights.” It is with this idea ...

Consider the phenomenon known as “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in ...

Un hallazgo revolucionario para la comprensión de la evolución de nuestra especie y los rituales humanos modernos. Así lo afirma un grupo de científicos en un estudio publicado en julio en la revista ...

Durante décadas, el relato de nuestra evolución se enseñó como una secuencia perfecta: del mono al hombre, del hueso al cohete. Una sucesión inevitable que culminaba en nosotros, los Homo sapiens, ...