The work also offers new data about the period in which the first representatives of the so-called "modern humans" appeared in the Iberian Peninsula and the extinction of the Neanderthals ...

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

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

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 ...

Modern humans appeared 200,000; civilization 10,000; and advanced technology 500 years ago. Why no advancement for something like 190,000 years? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and ...

The background — Here’s what we do know: Modern humans appeared in Europe at least 45,000 years ago Neanderthals disappeared from Europe around 40,000 years ago What’s not well-understood is ...

Modern humans appear to be a genetic mixture with approximately 80% ancestry from one ancient population and 20% from another. This mixing occurred long before today’s distinct human populations ...

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

What's the oldest fossil evidence humans have for our species ... As there are archaeological examples of modern cognition, such as tools and art, that appear around the same time as Jebel ...

Although both early modern human and Neanderthal populations appear to have practiced female exogamy, where female mates were chosen from outside closely related groups, early modern humans appear ...

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.