For many years, scientists believed that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were two separate human groups that only met and interbred much later in...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who...

In a new study, anthropologists in Australia argued that hominins arrived on the continent a little later than academia previously determined. It...

This week, a 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, the...

This week, a 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, the...

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on...

This piece is from 2014, republished by TomDispatch on August 24, 2025. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of Homo sapiens,...

This piece is from 2014, republished by TomDispatch on August 24, 2025. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of Homo sapiens,...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary...