The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

The new study adds to a mountain of evidence that autism is genetic, with up to 80 percent of cases linked to inherited gene ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Until now, the earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years in Africa. But the reclassification of Yunxian 2 suggests that three major human lineages – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, ...

As preparation for my upcoming series of interviews for Newsweek with the protagonists and practitioners of AI, I have been consuming a plethora of sources that examine the nature and origin of human ...