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

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

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

In the streets of Anyama, children play and braziers smoke on corners. There is little to show that the ground of this ...

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

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

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...

It’s been known that Homo sapiens left the continent of Africa around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, which contributed to our current gene pool. But, could there have been an earlier out of Africa ...

The ongoing intrigue should come as no surprise because, for a long time, Neanderthals were the model for the missing link between our own species, Homo sapiens, and the first apelike pre-human ...

Homo sapiens is thought to have emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago before dispersing all over the world. Humans were living in rainforests in Asia and Oceania as early as 45,000 years ago, but ...