Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book ...

In this picture, our parent species is equivalent to our biological parents, and the birth of H. sapiens becomes an event that is as easy to define as our own birth. But speciation isn’t really ...

Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A ...

But what could this tell us about how spoken language first appeared in H. sapiens? Modern humans have a unique version of NOVA1 compared with other species, including our extinct human relatives, the ...

In a new study, scientists at Aix-Marseille University in France sequenced the genome of 22 H. sapiens and 14 Neanderthals from Eurasia, dating between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, to understand ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...