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

Newly found fossils show that those rivers were home to fish, turtles, river sharks, and even hippos. On land, elephants, ...

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

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

While the exact details are unclear, he explained, the prevailing belief for the last 20 years has been that modern humans first appeared in Africa some 200,000–300,000 years ago, descended from ...

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 ...

Misconception: Modern humans invented culture ... theory and argue that God made all creatures perfectly as they appear in the present day. This fringe belief system emerged during the religious ...

the dominant 'out of Africa' hypothesis on human origin has long maintained that modern humans first appeared in southern Africa only around 50,000 years ago — hundreds of years after the 'Dali ...

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 ...

and rose even higher when modern humans appeared. Today, just three species of elephant remain from this group. “If early humans had not appeared, the number of species would probably still be ...

Rapidly accumulating evidence for the pre-40,000-year presence of modern humans in Europe challenges the idea that ... had equivalent capacity for iconic words and syntax, they appear to have differed ...