In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

A breakthrough in human evolutionary research has finally revealed the place where Homo sapiens and Neanderthals first crossed paths. The discovery places the two ancient human species not in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

“The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,” stated Aylwyn Scally of Cambridge University. That sums up ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now ...

If evolution has been a constant ever since the origin of life 4.2 billion years ago, then why do some claim that, for humans ...

HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Exploring How Human Evolution Continues to Shape Our Future While we have a fairly good grasp on how humans have evolved up to this point, ...