Roughly 50,000 years ago, two species of humans met in the shadow of Eurasian ice sheets. One, Homo sapiens, had just embarked on its conquest of the world after leaving Africa. The other, Homo ...

The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.

This Homo sapiens jaw was found by archaeologists in an old mine in Morocco. AAP/EPA/ABDELHAK SENNA. So, one answer to your question is to say that the first person came from Africa around 200,000 ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago ...

The burials are older than any known Homo sapiens burials by at least 100,000 years. A reconstruction of Homo naledi's head by paleoartist John Gurche, who spent some 700 hours recreating the head ...

SCIENCE SHORTS. Why Did Homo Sapiens Outlive Neanderthals? Their Teeth Offer a Clue Dental enamel suggests our extinct cousins experienced longer periods of stress during childhood ...

A provocative new study suggests that Homo sapiens moved into Europe in three waves. By Laura Baisas. Published May 4, 2023 11:00 AM EDT.

Homo sapiens reached north America 16,000 years ago and by 10,000 BC had occupied the southern tip of south America. The same story as recounted for Australia unfolded in America — the megafauna ...

The species Homo sapiens (or “wise man”) began to evolve about 300,000 years ago, and eventually won out the evolutionary battle and became the only Homo species to reign on Earth about 40,000 ...

Homo sapiens are extremely skilled at war. Even after primitive Homo sapiens broke out of Africa 200,000 years ago , it took over 150,000 years to conquer Neanderthal lands.

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth ...