New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past 18 years to indicate an initial branching of humans about 135,000 years ago ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended ...

A cave painting of two humans and a pig on the island of Sulawesi serves as one of the earliest examples, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that the telling of stories precedes these surviving ...