Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Since the discovery of Neanderthals nearly two centuries ago, paleoanthropologists have grappled with an evolutionary mystery: Why did Homo sapiens survive as a species while their stockier ...

A new history of us --Homo Sapiens — and why fiction – stories – let us rule the world. Visitors picture, from the left, models representing Flores, Homo Sapiens and Neanderthal women stand ...

The discovery and the ongoing research threatens to overthrow key aspects of how the scientific world understands human evolution ... between our species (Homo sapiens) and our ‘ape-man ...

But when it came to the creation of Adam-Homo Sapiens, God made it a joint venture, “Let us make humans” (1:26). Thus the evolution of Homo Sapiens results in creatures who will “rule over ...

A new species of ancient human dubbed Homo longi, or "Dragon Man," could potentially change the way we understand human evolution ... to our own species, Homo sapiens. The discovery of the ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the evolution ... to Becoming Homo sapiens," published Dec. 9 on the bioRxiv ...

But evolution means that discrete categories ... Whether these fossils should truly be labelled Homo sapiens or not, doesn't really matter, they're long-dead close relatives of ours.