Explore five fascinating extinct human species that once walked the Earth beside Homo sapiens, from Neanderthals to the ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Indeed, when we consider the endless disputes of naturalists and ethnologists over the human races, as to whether they belong to one species or to more, and if to more, whether to three, or five ...

The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and becoming the only surviving species of human left today. Modern ...

“This new research changes the origin of species.” Research co-led by Henn and Simon Gravel of McGill University tested a range of competing models of evolution and migration across Africa proposed in ...

The story of human evolution is more intricate than ever, especially in eastern Asia during the Late Quaternary period, approximately 300,000 to 50,000 years ago. Recent fossil discoveries are ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN RACES AND THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN. Deduced from the Theary of "Natural Selection," by ALFRED R. WALLACE, Esq., ... so as to constitute distinct species, ...

Even Homo erectus, the grandparent of early human species, was still running around as recently as 112,000 years ago. ... once a champion of a strict Out of Africa view of human origins, ...

ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES starts as a parable of human evolution and develops as a lighthearted drama. Paul has prepared menus and conversation topics circling the question of how a species evolves.

Smallest human species ‘Flores Hobbits’ were even smaller than thought, study finds. Homo floresiensis lived on Indonesia’s Flores island as recently as 50,000 years ago ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. ... in order to decipher the origins of human language," says Catherine Crockford, senior author of the study. ...