For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the ...
We break down some common myths about our early human ancestors—and what makes our species, ‘Homo sapiens,’ so different from ...
The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials.
The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and ...
The new work also revealed the earliest known example of Homo erectus, a species thought to be a direct ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens ... in Africa from archaic humans to modern ...
Ancient DNA helps reveal the tangled branches of the human family tree. Not only did our ancestors live alongside other human species, they mated with them, too. The 140,000-year-old skull fossils ...