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

The modern human DNA sequences in the Altai Neanderthal appear to derive from a modern human group that separated early from other humans, "about the time present-day African populations diverged from ...

“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 ...

Researchers analyzed over a hundred archaeological sites and environmental data to understand how early humans adapted to ...

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 ...

Researchers found no major technological innovations or immune advantages at that time. Instead, success came from ecological ...

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

While it’s not yet known what happened to these early humans, their presence adds to an increasingly complex picture of early migration. New ancient human fossils are shedding light on the first ...