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 ...

Homo sapiens began as a small population vulnerable to predators, climate shifts, and stronger rival species. Yet through cooperation, creativity, and communication, they developed tools, strategies, ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded southwards, but now a ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Jan 31 (Reuters) - Bone fragments unearthed in a cave in central Germany show that our species ventured into Europe's cold higher latitudes more than 45,000 years ago - much earlier than previously ...

The highly-regarded anthropologist Terrence Deacon, who studies the evolution of humans’ language and symbolic capacity, among other things, once said at a conference at Binghamton University “Humans ...