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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most recent fossils are those of Homo sapiens from around 10,000 years ago. Any H. sapiens remains dating from the last 10,000 years are stored in the human comparative collection. The specimens ...