That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
Ce film part à la recherche des origines de l’art et, pour la première fois, l'investigation est menée à l’échelle mondiale. Grâce aux témoignages des chercheurs les plus à la pointe de leur domaine : ...
Un pied fossilisé découvert en Éthiopie met sous les projecteurs un ancêtre de l'humain peu connu, contemporain de l'espèce de Lucy, selon une étude scientifique publiée dans la revue Nature (nouvelle ...
Tous les jours, nous mangeons et respirons d’infimes résidus de plastique. Quels effets cette contamination insidieuse a-t-elle sur notre corps ? Rigoureuse et limpide, cette enquête scientifique ...
Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BBC’s five-part series “Human” premieres Wednesday as part of the PBS series “Nova,” following paleoanthropologist ...
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 ...
In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...
An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had ...
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 ...