Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

PARIS — In 2017, paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin, now a professor at the Collège de France, shook up his discipline by pushing back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. While the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lecturer in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harari is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, out in the U.S. in February. We traded emails about human contradiction ...

Your browser does not support the video element. Homo sapiens have been around for about 200,000 years. But our modern-shaped human brains may have only come into ...

By H. G. Wells. (An amalgamation and modernization of two books—“The Fate of Homo Sapiens” and “The New World Order”, published severally in 1939 and 1940. Pp. 287. (London: Seeker and ...