Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

You've seen it before. The chart of an ape walking on all fours, shedding its hair, standing upright, grabbing a spear and growing taller to become a modern human. This diagram called 'The March ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... you’re presumably a member of the species Homo sapiens, one of somewhere between 5 and 100 million distinct types of organisms living on Earth ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

The precise timeline of Homo sapiens' evolution in Africa remains uncertain. However, current fossil and genetic evidence suggests that modern humans and Neanderthals diverged at least 500,000 ...

Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared ... played a crucial role in human evolution," said Cousins.