Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...

Scientists have recently reconstructed one of the skulls, revealing potential ties between the archaic humans, the Dragon Man lineage, and Homo sapiens. Dragon Man, or Homo longi, is an extinct ...

Understanding how early Homo sapiens ventured into Eurasia offers ... to mitochondrial DNA sequences found in a 43,000-year-old skull from the Czech Republic, suggesting interconnected populations ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest ... From the six- to seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis ...

The skull showed a mix of primitive and modern ... advanced technical skills and were on the evolutionary path toward Homo sapiens. The site, only the second in China after Zhoukoudian to yield ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth ... Africa model posits that all living humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) descend from a population that ...

In the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were ... a stooping chimp-like creature gradually morphs into Homo sapiens, apparently the apex of evolution.

Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull ...

A skull fossil unearthed in 2015 is one of the ... They were very intelligent, and had evolved towards the stage of Homo sapiens, according to Wu. "The Hualongdong humans were the earliest ancient ...

The earliest proposed Homo sapiens, a 300,000-year-old skull from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, does not show this rounded, high back. The latest evidence was uncovered at the site of Apidima Cave in ...

The world's first scientific facial reconstruction case based on the "Yunxian Man" skull fossils dating back approximately 1 million years was unveiled by Hubei Provincial Museum on Thursday, ...