Every person on Earth today can trace their ancestry to Africa, where modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged at least 300,000 years ago. But our ancestor Homo erectus lived in Africa, Europe and ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo ... support the 'Out of Africa' hypothesis and believe that all humans share a common origin.

The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and becoming the only surviving species of human left today. Modern ...

For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as ... While the study suggests humans might not have originated in Africa, more research needs to be done ...

Our species emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with a migration out of the continent 60,000 to 70,000 years ago heralding the start of the global spread of Homo sapiens. But where did ...

Fossils of five early humans have been found in North Africa that show Homo ... us they did things typical of Homo sapiens "We are not trying to say that the origin of our species was in Morocco ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

New dating of fossils from Israel indicates that our species (Homo sapiens) lived outside Africa around 185,000 ... be even older Homo sapiens finds to come from the region of western Asia." ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

The Out of Africa model posits that all living humans (Homo sapiens sapiens ... fossil and genetic data are consistent with an African origin for our species, the Aurignacian has no clear ...

They lived from around 430,000 years ago until their disappearance relatively soon after Homo sapiens - a species that arose roughly 300,000 years ago in Africa - trekked into areas Neanderthals ...

Learn how interbreeding with Neanderthals may have bolstered our immune systems.