Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

This means that at some point, ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) interbred with Neanderthals. Now, two separate studies published in the journals Science and Nature in December have dated this ...

These are the earliest fossils found in East Asia in terms of the evolutionary process towards Homo sapiens. "The food scraps of ancient people at Hualongdong site might have lured rats and those ...

Both Neanderthals and the more advanced Homo sapiens had more or less the life ... certain members who earned salaries, perhaps in the form of extra food, that enabled them to become wealthier ...

Researchers have hypothesized that the fossils were collected for reasons beyond necessity, potentially for aesthetic enjoyment or to assign them a form of ... presence of Homo sapiens ...

Researchers focused on three key events: a bottleneck 900,000 years ago (Event 1), the divergence of modern and archaic humans 650,000 years ago (Event 2), and interbreeding between Homo sapiens ...

Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. New research is providing the most precise estimate to date of when this ...

The number of humans inhabiting the Earth has steadily increased since Homo sapiens began to assert their dominance ... A world with fewer new births may reshape how we build cities, form families, ...

These distinctions led Wu and Bae to propose the Juluren as a distinct form of ancient humans who ... including early Homo sapiens," said Wu. This characteristic, along with their diverse physical ...