Long before the rise of the Homo sapiens civilization, our ancestors walked the valleys of East Africa over a million years ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in ...

A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans ... the earliest fossils resembling anatomically modern humans were from Omo Kibish in Ethiopia, dating to around 200,000 years ago.

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ... indicating that our species—H. sapiens—appeared on the scene ...

our history shifted by almost 100,000 years when a skull from Morocco became the oldest known example of Homo sapiens, surpassing the 195,000 year old record held by other remains from Ethiopia.

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave goods consisting of animal remains and chunks of red ochre. At the same ...