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

Don Simborg's book, 'What Comes After Homo Sapiens?' is a fascinating and scary glimpse... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

Cave today known simply as PP13B, near Mossel Bay, South Africa, sheltered humans between 164,000 and 35,000 years ago, at a time when Homo sapiens was in danger of dying out.These people may have ...

There were at least nine Homo species — including H. sapiens — distributed around Africa, Europe and Asia by about 300,000 ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Elena Zavala of the University of California, Berkeley, about new research showing how homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and may have even interbred.

This suggests Homo sapiens employed strategies that reduced stress for their children after weaning that Neanderthals ...

In order to investigate the “weak bite” hypothesis, the researchers used CT-scanned specimens to create three-dimensional models of the skulls of a white-handed gibbon, orangutan, chimpanzee ...

CNN recently reported that Neanderthals were as smart as Homo Sapiens. (See the last sentence of this CNN article.) Sure, they were as smart, but they routinely shipped their products two years ...

Our species emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with a migration out of the continent 60,000 to 70,000 years ago heralding the start of the global spread of Homo sapiens. But where did ...

I recently reviewed What Comes After Homo Sapiens? When and How Our Species Will Evolve into Another Species (DWS Publishing, Sept. 5, 2017), on this site. Its author, Don Simborg, predicts that ...