Homo Sapiens

Israeli archeologists find remains of new type of 'early human', name it 'Nesher Ramla Homo'

Dating to between 140,000 and 120,000 years ago, the Nesher Ramla humans shares features with both Neanderthals and archaic Homo.

Life sized picture of a wild pig is the world's oldest cave painting from 45,000 years ago

The team believes the artwork was made by Homo sapiens, as opposed to now-extinct human species like Denisovans, but cannot say this for certain.

In David Attenborough's warning about the Earth's future, a lesson for liberals who have failed to unite for the planet's cause

The ability of some types of stories, such as those rooted in religion and nationalism to unite large numbers of people, has outstripped the ability of other stories, which are rooted in ideas of equality and emancipation, to bring people together.

Researchers find genes of mysterious human species that interbred with Africans thousands of years ago

Not much is known about this ghost population other than they seemed to diverge from the evolutionary line around 650,000 years ago.

Were other humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?

The spread of modern humans out of Africa has caused a sixth mass extinction, an event that has last more than 40,000-years.

Fossil of prehistoric ape from Germany rewrites the history of bipedalism in humans

Danuvius could walk upright on two legs and clamber through trees with all four limbs, making them the oldest-known example of upright walking in apes.

Homeland: Archeologists dig up modern humankind's ancestral settlement in Botswana

The oldest-known Homo sapiens fossil evidence dates back more than 3,00,000 years from Morocco.

Genetic studies show that human beings lead to the extinction of the cave bear

Homo sapiens originated in Africa more than 300,000 years ago and later spreading worldwide.

A chunk of skull found in Greece is the earliest sign of humans outside of Africa

Its est to be 210,000 years old and shows our species began leaving Africa earlier than we thought.

Supernova may have led to early humans walking upright, a radical study suggests

The supernovae reportedly caused an electron-surge in the atmosphere that led to bipedalism in humans.