While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Later humans doubled down by using their name as the dictionary definition of dumb ... intelligent, and dashing Homo sapiens? Or could this just be human propaganda? What we know for certain ...

The physical traits of Homo sapiens include a high and rounded (‘globular ... Complications come when we consider a particular definition of species – one which Linnaeus did not develop, but which he ...

In a new study, scientists at Aix-Marseille University in France sequenced the genome of 22 H. sapiens and 14 Neanderthals from Eurasia, dating between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, to understand ...

Excavations at Jebel Irhoud, near Morocco’s west coast, have uncovered the 300,000-year-old bones of some of the earliest members of the Homo sapiens lineage. Human bones were first discovered ...

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...