Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. That ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...

“They redefine the concept of Homo sapiens by creating this category of ‘early modern humans’ that I’ve never seen before.” While Hawks applauds the researchers for their careful re ...

In the modern context of perpetual abundance ... Maybe, once we brought them up to speed on spaceships and crème brûlées and what not, those early humans would even see in our world something of ...

Since the emergence of early humans and modern humans, about 27 proboscidean species have gone extinct, Torsten Hauffe, an ecologist at the University of Fribourg and Swiss Institute of ...

The research provides insights into the demographics of early modern humans. Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of ...

Misconception: Modern humans invented culture. Misconception: Human evolution is linear and progressive. Misconception: We’re descended from apes. Misconception: Early humans hunted dinosaurs.

"They met Neanderthals," says Sümer. To be more direct, prehistoric sparks flew. These early modern humans and the Neanderthals had babies. "Most people that live today outside of Africa have ...

The extinction rate of these animals increased fivefold when early humans evolved around 1.8 million years ago, the study concludes, and rose even higher when modern humans appeared. Today ...

For decades, scientists who studied early modern humans believed that our ancestors initially inhabited only small areas of Africa, the savannas of the eastern and southern part of the continent ...

These findings suggest that somewhere in Africa, early modern humans developed this mutation, which then spread rapidly across populations, enabling the foundation of human speech. The fact that ...