About 813,000 years ago, numbers began rising rapidly again, setting the stage for later expansions of humans across the globe. ... Schematic diagram of human population size history.

The very first people to set foot in South America belonged to a previously unknown group of hunter-gatherers that later disappeared without a trace, a new study suggests. Initially crossing the ...

Updated 12:56 PM EDT, Wed March 12, 2025 ... Fossil fragments found in a cave in northern Spain reveal a previously unknown human population that lived over 1.1 million years ago.

Different human groups in Europe "actually went extinct several times — including Neanderthals going extinct around that time, 40,000 to 45,000 years ago," he said.

The genomes were recovered from seven individuals who lived between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago in ... early modern human population contributed to later ... 12). Oldest modern human ...

They included the oldest ancient DNA from the region to date, from two individuals who lived around 10,000 years ago. The findings show that the population history of southernmost Africa is ...

An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.

Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago, but there has never been more of their DNA on Earth Published: August 31, 2022 12:40pm EDT Peter C. Kjærgaard , University of Copenhagen , Mark Maslin ...

Cavemen were saved by using sunscreen more than 40,000 years ago, according to new research. Ancient homo sapiens may have benefitted from mineral-based sun protection, living in caves and even ...

Add all of us up, all 7 billion human beings on earth, and clumped together we weigh roughly 750 billion pounds. That, says Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, is more than 100 times the biomass of any ...

1.5 million years ago, human ancestors used hippo bones to make tools. New data revises the timeline for when our prehistoric relatives started using animal bones. By Andrew Paul.