(that’s us) did not descend from a neat, single lineage. Instead, modern humans can link their heritage back to at least two ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals Homo sapiens descended from two ancestral groups, not one. This complex origin story ...

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...