Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

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A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

The discovery and dating of the Jebel Irhoud fossils are used to explain why Morocco holds the oldest known Homo sapiens remains. Mining history, early excavation methods, burnt tools dated in 2017, ...

Most people with non-African ancestry carry roughly 1–4% Neanderthal ancestry spread across their genomes, a legacy of contact after modern humans expanded into Eurasia. But the X chromosome, one of ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

DNA evidence suggests homo sapiens women more often paired with Neanderthal men, helping explain why Neanderthal genes are rare.

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Homo heidelbergensis is presented as a key link between earlier Homo species and later populations, potentially representing ...

Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.

Homo sapiens evolved by adapting to their environment. They evolved from tribes of foragers and scavengers to hunters and gatherers, agriculturalists, industrialists and eventually modern-day digital ...