A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Uncover the groundbreaking discovery of the “Dragon Head” hominid skull in China, a find that challenges the long-standing Out of Africa theory! This fascinating fossil, dating back approximately 300, ...

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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 ...

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A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in ...

Dr. Robert Darnell, an author of the study and a long-time researcher of NOVA1, believes this variant is among the genes that “contributed to the emergence of Homo sapiens as the dominant ...

The genetic variant researchers were looking at was one of a variety of genes “that contributed to the emergence of Homo sapiens as the dominant species, which we are today” said Dr. Robert ...

"It takes a gene that people had already singled out as having a mutation that's specific to Homo sapiens, that's not present even in our most closely related relatives, the Neanderthals and ...