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

Genetic analysis of a 40,000-year-old jawbone from Romania reveals that early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals when they first came to Europe. Neanderthals became extinct about 40,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Tishkoff, who has also studied interbreeding between early modern humans and Neanderthals, previous research largely didn’t recognize these earlier waves of migration, because they ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...