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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Inner ear of extinct ape species is overlooked aspect of human bipedal evolution, study finds Described by scientists as a "bony labyrinth," the inner ear provides many clues as to the origin of ...

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, ...

Columnist and Humans Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species. Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin ...