One of the more enduring mysteries about Neanderthals is whether they had a spoken language, a trait that’s impossible to ...

Presented in conjunction with the Getty’s PST ART initiative, Art & Science Collide ... They begin at the center with simple ...

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.

Meanwhile, an accelerating stream of scientific discoveries and the increasing popularity of at-home DNA testing continues to ...

"We are now able to demonstrate that Homo sapiens arrived 12,000 years before ... our capacity to produce art, language and possibly a better brain. But Prof Stringer believes it was because ...

However, recent discoveries paint a different picture ... The discovery that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared the FOXP2 ...

If proven correct, then Homo sapiens and Homo floresiensis must have ... cultures that didn't develop personal ornamentation, rock art, or some other manifestation of the introspective human ...

At the dawn of humanity, in a cave on what would become the Southern Cape coast, people who thought and looked like us mixed paint, crafted fine tools and explored graphic design.

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 ...

The building used to be a boat-assembly plant, which made the festivities oddly apt, since tattoos have always thrived on ...

Homo sapiens, that has since gone extinct. So what does the science say? In particular, what does the genetic evidence, which ...

May 1, 2024 — Researchers have provided new age estimates and revised provenance information for the Liujiang human fossils, shedding light on the presence of Homo sapiens in the region.