Archaeologists have returned to the Cave of the Venuses, a prehistoric site in Europe once home to both Neanderthals and some artistic Homo sapiens. After using a new combination of techniques to ...

At first glance, it’s striking; but look at the face long enough and the strangeness begins to fade. Sure, the brow is heavy and the skull is broad. But the eyes, nose and mouth belong to someone who ...

Roughly 315,000 years ago, a group of early humans lived in what is now Morocco. Their remains, unearthed at a site called Jebel Irhoud, are the oldest fossils ever attributed to our species, Homo ...

AI Author Shieru Aoba 's columnIntroductionThe title of Part 1 of "The Journey of Nameless Humanity" is"The World Was Here".When I began reading this story, Shin-chan, my co-creation partner and ...

Composite skull and CT-based soft-tissue mapping reveal a familiar face while underscoring what fossils can’t show.

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This ...

Digital reconstruction suggests an early human from Morocco may have looked remarkably similar to people today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A side-by-side comparison of a Neanderthal and human skull. Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record roughly ...

Discover how Jebel Irhoud fossils, dating back 300,000 years, reshape our understanding of Homo sapiens evolution. In addition to the hominin fossils, Jebel Irhoud is home to a number of stone tools, ...

Some animals are jacks of all trades, some masters of one. Homo sapiens, argues a provocative new commentary, are an evolutionary success story because our ancestors pulled off a unique feat: being ...

The Tibetan Plateau has long been considered one of the last places to be populated by people in their migration around the globe. A new paper by archeologists at the University of California, Davis, ...