Explore research on Homo sapiens, their evolution, migration, and cultural developments.
For decades, Homo erectus has stood at the center of one of paleoanthropology’s biggest debates. The species was the first ...
A new study from central China is changing how scientists think about creativity and survival among ancient humans. Archaeologists studying ...
Most people living outside Africa carry small traces of Neanderthal DNA. These inherited fragments appear across many human chromosomes. One ...
60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity’s earliest geometric designs. Credit: Decembrini et al., PloS One (2026) More than 60,000 years ...
A team of neonatologists and obstetricians has proposed a new explanation for the disappearance of Neanderthals. In a study published ...
A set of ancient human bones from Casablanca reshapes how we think about early human history. New research places a ...
A team of archaeologists excavating southern Africa has found the oldest direct evidence of human use of poisoned weapons, extending ...
A new genetic study indicates that ancient communities in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation, developing a distinct set of ...
A new study from Israel is shedding new light on how extinct relatives of modern humans hunted large animals, and ...
Researchers in archaeology and genetics who worked on one of the most important Neanderthal collections in Europe have reconstructed a ...
