This could indicate a better or differently functioning sense of smell in present day humans. Neandertals may have lived at a faster pace, they seem to have grown up faster than Homo sapiens. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia ... indicating that our species—H. sapiens—appeared on the scene as early as 300,000 ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...

In central Israel, a key archaeological discovery connects two different species of human — Homo sapiens and Neanderthals — not only crossed paths, but that they may have engaged in cultural ...