Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the ...

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

In contrast, earlier Homo sapiens, who had emerged in Africa about 300,000 years ago, were believed to be too primitive to ...

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 ...

in which anatomically modern humans of African origin conquered the world by completely replacing archaic human populations (Homo sapiens; Model A). The multiregional hypothesis states that ...

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 ...

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 ...