“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 ...

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

Researchers analyze nine prehistoric sites with evidence of fire use and determine why exactly early humans built fire.

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

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

in creating art." Neanderthals were a distinct species of early humans that went extinct around 40,000 years ago but lived alongside modern humans in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

A Nature study shows Arabia was periodically lush over 8 million years, creating migration corridors for early humans and ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

About 150 scientists gathered at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference for talks that touched on the Thomistic notion ...

in creating art." Neanderthals were a distinct species of early humans that went extinct around 40,000 years ago but lived alongside modern humans in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...