Tag: homo sapiens

A tiny dot on a face-shaped pebble shows that Neanderthals also had the ability to understand abstract art.

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of years ...

For thousands of years, Neanderthals flourished across Eurasia. But new research suggests their genetic diversity plummeted in a sudden population ...

Researchers propose a stunning new theory for why Neanderthals and humans started to bury their dead at the same time.

In the heart of the Zagros Mountains, ancient humans might have crossed paths with Neanderthals, leaving genetic imprints that survive ...

New studies show that Neanderthals and humans shared northern Europe for thousands of years.

They lived around the time the first humans started to appear in Africa.

Stone tools and a tooth found in a cave in France open up new questions on human history

Nothing actually new under the sun, but the new designation aims to clear a lot of confusion surrounding the human ...

Some scientists believe we've found our long-lost sister lineage. But not everyone is entirely convinced.

Tree ring-like growth lines in baby Neanderthal teeth suggest they were first weaned at around 6 months of age.

Whenever distinct groups of humans and their ancestors overlapped in space and time, interbreeding was just around the corner.

These were the hi-tech gadgets of the Upper Paleolithic

A new lineage of humans has been identified in the DNA of certain African populations. But no one knows what ...

Was this an isolated individual, or part of an earlier wave of human migration?

The humans had to become very efficient in order to survive.

We're taking you for a ride through evolutionary memory lane, carefully listing the members of our long family tree.

A tiny fingerbone is re-writing the story of human dispersal out of Africa.

Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.

Our ancestors interbred both with Neanderthals and Denisovans.

A 200,000-year-old human jawbone found in a cave in Israel is rewriting history.

A lot has changed in 30.000 years.

Yet another sign that the two species from the same Homo genus were very similar to one another.

Dibs on the last slice.

The most comprehensive bone analysis of its kind shows Homo floresiensis didn't share important features with Homo erectus.

No one knows who the direct ancestor of Neanderthals is but this skull might help shed light.

The fact that the greatest biodiversity of large mammals we know of today is recorded in Africa is a legacy ...

A broken jaw unearthed in Ethiopia pushes back the origin of the homo linage - of which homo sapiens sapiens ...

A partial skull fragment found in Kenya seems to indicate that early humans were much more diverse than previously thought. ...

After analyzing key hand bone fragments from fossil records, a team of anthropologists conclude that pre-homo human ancestral species, such ...

Tibetans acquired a unique gene by interbreeding with a now-extinct human species. Photo: easytourchina.com Advancements in genetic sequencing has allowed ...

  Researchers have found obsidian spearheads dated 85.000 years ago before the development of Homo Sapiens (280.000 years ago). This ...

Shape of the hand and foot in two primate species. The fingers are represented independently (colour coded) in the primate ...

Human hair found in fossilized hyena poop suggests that ancient humans were sometimes on the menu of other animals. The ...

German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have completed the first high-quality draft Neanderthal genome sequence, ...

Early humans developed sophisticated hunting weapons half a million years ago, 200.000 years before researchers believed they did. Image: Courtesy ...

According to a new study conducted by Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California, ...

An incredible find was publicized just earlier  - fossils remains from stone age people were unearthed from two caves in ...

Last year, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, produced a draft of the Denisova genome, in order study ...

A fresh look at some already known fossilized remains revealed quite a surprise: they turned out to be the earliest ...

Humanity's right handedness began at least 500.000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Kansas researchers. ...

I recently came across this poll, which was conducted about a year ago. Ok, so it's not extremely actual, but ...

By all standards, at some point, Neanderthals were better prepared for life than any other human species; however, in spite ...

Svante Paabo, the researcher whose work provided the basis for the Jurassic Park movies seems to have struck gold once ...

After it was proved that Homo floresiensis (”Man of Flores”, nicknamed Hobbit) is a different species than humans, the tiny ...