These findings came from an excavation led by Israeli researchers from Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and other ...

This map shows when exactly pale skinned people ... Light pigmentation became more common as Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa into regions with lower ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

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 ...