There were at least nine Homo species — including H. sapiens — distributed around Africa, Europe and Asia by about 300,000 years ago, according to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in an evolutionary story that began approximately 6 million years ago and ...

This may have made Homo species more resilient and adaptable than Paranthropus was, but unraveling what made H. sapiens ...

Across the world, in every ecosystem, and across all species, drastic biodiversity loss is occurring and it is unequivocally due to human activity. Image credit: F-Focus by Mati Kose/Shutterstock ...

The team’s analysis revealed that humans target some 15,000 vertebrate species, amounting to one third of all such species on Earth. That’s anywhere from five to 300 times the number of ...

The nearly complete skull did not match any previously known species of prehistoric human. But two new studies — which researchers say are among the biggest paleoanthropology papers of the year ...

The nearly complete skull did not match any previously known species of prehistoric human. But two new studies — which researchers say are among the biggest paleoanthropology papers of the year ...