In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share the same habitat for a long period of time? Excavations by a French research team at ...

The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

And we found out that they were indeed humans or Homo sapiens. And the next question, of course, was the time period. How old were these remains? And Helen Fewlass is the one who performed the ...

Homo sapiens in Africa. The intervening span is what anthropologists call “the muddle in the middle”. The time period is characterized by poorly understood fossils, book-ended by better-studied H.

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them ...

For much of Homo sapiens’ existence ... have recolonized all of Eurasia in the following interglacial period for the umpteenth time from their refuges in southern Europe. Maybe they would ...

The scientists described the interbreeding, found to have been more recent than previous estimates, as a single extended period of ... in frequency in Homo sapiens over time, suggesting their ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefitted from sunscreen ... and found that the time period of the Laschamps excursion -- which lasted from about 41,000 to 39,000 BP -- coincided with periods ...

In a time long before cities ... show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel. They were shaping one another's ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five ... “Most of the hominins that we see during this period of time are hybrids,” study author Professor Yossi Zaidner ...