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 ...

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 ...

Digging on a hilltop in the Sahara Desert, scientists have found the most ancient known members of our own species, undermining longstanding ideas about the origins of humanity. The newfound Homo ...

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 ...

(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 ...

For decades, the story of Homo sapiens has been told as a linear process, with a more or less localised origin and a ...

The Ice Age ended, the mammoths vanished, and Homo sapiens remained. In the Mesolithic, humans reshaped their world with tools, fire, and mobility—but the archaeological trail is thin ...

For about 250 years, our species has been known as Homo sapiens, a scientific name in Latin that means "wise man." Given the havoc humans are wreaking on natural systems, putting ourselves and so many ...