"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

Around 300,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans emerged in Africa, a pivotal moment in human history. Yet, the roots of this lineage stretch much further back, over six million years ...

While gossiping is often portrayed as a malicious activity, science shows that “spilling the tea” has significant roots in ...

The research in the *American Journal of Biological Anthropology* suggests Neanderthals at Cova de l'Arbreda alternated ...

Dodge County Historical Society will host a presentation on “The Evolutionary Process Uniting the Artwork in the Chambers of the Lascaux Cave: Evidence of the Development of Sapiens Cognition” at ...

Similarities observed in both modern and archaic human genomes suggest many hallmarks of the Homo sapiens genetic landscape arose before the lineages split. Homo sapiens evolved through a series ...

The findings could impact our understanding of when modern humans reached regions like East Asia and Australia Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A cast of a Neanderthal skull at the Chemnitz ...

12, 2024 — A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, ... New Insights Into the Denisovans ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...