Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

A sweeping new study of thousands of historical scholars suggests that human curiosity may follow a universal blueprint.

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

When scientists first discovered these remains of a teenage girl in 2010, they knew that the history of early humans was ...

Instead, various traits we associate with anatomically modern humans probably appeared in a type of “mosaic evolution” that Neanderthals also seem to have exhibited. Modern humankind “wasn ...

Researchers found traces of Mycobacterium lepromatosis in thousand-year-old human remains in Canada and Argentina.

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Modern humans descended from not one ... view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

sapiens—appeared on the scene as early as 300,000 years ago. Spreading into Eurasia l00,000 years later, these early anatomically modern humans rubbed shoulders with Neandertals and Denisovans, and ...

which holds that modern humans first appeared in southern Africa around 50,000 years ago and then migrated to Eurasia, largely replacing indigenous populations.

Importantly, these SNVs appeared to have arisen after the common ... and the most recent common ancestor of all modern human Y chromosomes, dating to around 338,000 years ago.

“Suddenly, we modern humans appear in this region of the Pyrenees, and the Neanderthals disappear. But before that, Neanderthals had been living in Europe for almost 300,000 years.” ...