A partial skull discovered in Apidima Cave on the Mani Peninsula in Southern Greece has revealed that Homo sapiens were the first humans to leave Africa, challenging previous assumptions about ...

Housing an ever-larger brain in an ever-larger cranium comes at a cost. But with the appearance of the first Homo sapiens, a new direction was taken. Transforming rather than continuing to grow ...

For decades, the accepted theory of human migration suggested that Homo sapiens arrived to America around 15,000 years ago, and that they were the very first humans to roam North America.

The new discovery means Homo sapiens have been on earth for 300,000 years - a whole 100,000 years longer than previously ...

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them ...

BBC Two's upcoming five-part science show Human will reveal the 'mind-boggling' evidence which proves that the human race is ...

This region served as a vital link between Africa, where Homo sapiens first appeared, and Eurasia, where Neanderthals and other human types lived. The geographic setting allowed for ongoing ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

Just because Homo sapiens hadn’t yet developed the SPF rating system 41,000 ... Mukhopadhyay tapped into existing models and constructed his own to reach this conclusion. He first built a simulation ...