Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

The number of humans inhabiting Earth has steadily increased since Homo sapiens arrived. But this global population growth is unsustainable.

"Homo Sapiens, modern humans, evolved in Africa," says Arev Sümer ... "So we can estimate how many generations must have ...

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 ...

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One study unveiled two of the oldest Homo sapiens genomes so far sequenced, which were more than 42,000 years old, and revealed the individuals likely had dark skin, dark hair and brown eyes.

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 ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

[Photo/Xinhua] HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East Asia of the evolutionary transition toward Homo sapiens ...