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

What will humans look like after ten thousand years or one lakh years from now? Will they be shorter? Will they be taller or thinner? Will the humans be more intelligent or will they be stupid? These ...

The author of “Sapiens” says that for the first time in tens of thousands of years, humanity has competition. And it’s coming ...

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

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

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...