Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans.

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 ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives ... Her videos about dinosaurs, astrophysics, biodiversity and evolution appear in museums and science centers worldwide ...

including early Homo sapiens," said Wu. This characteristic, along with their diverse physical traits, underscores the complexity of human evolution, particularly in eastern Asia. For decades ...

But when it came to the creation of Adam-Homo Sapiens, God made it a joint venture, “Let us make humans” (1:26). Thus the evolution of Homo Sapiens results in creatures who will “rule over ...

searching for clues to some of the deepest mysteries of human evolution: When did Homo sapiens arrive here? And what other humans did they encounter? A timelapse of John Gurche's months-long ...

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery: Why did Homo sapiens survive as a species while their stockier ...