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

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

This finding significantly extends the known timeline of the Homo sapiens lineage by more than 100,000 years. These discoveries help bridge gaps in the fossil record and challenge existing ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

Surprising new research suggests that the timeline extends more than 80,000 ... an international team of researchers claims that humans (Homo sapiens) began living in rainforests as early as ...

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 ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

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 ...