The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in desert or tropical forests ...

Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

A new study revealed that our ancestor Homo erectus survived extreme desert conditions over a million years ago, challenging ...

While new studies have reinforced the idea of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens admixture in Europe, the picture in South Asia ...

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.

Witness the incredible journey of our species! From simple beginnings to the sophisticated beings we are today, human ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

In the study, "Partitioning the Genomic Journey to Becoming Homo sapiens," published Dec. 9 on the bioRxiv preprint server, genomic sequences from modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans were ...

Though some might be surprised to see Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry test results, people of non-African descent derive 1 ...