a term which recognized its belonging to the genus Homo, but also accepted our inability to refine it further with the evidence available at the time. In 2022, against all odds, the excavation ...

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous materials is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and is evident among ...

Homo sapiens are the last surviving members of the genus Homo, every other species ... aren't descendants of Homo heidelbergensis at all, remains a contentious and unresolved subject.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

A paper Chang coauthored in 2015 argued the fossil belonged to the genus Homo, the grouping to which our species, Homo sapiens, and other ancient humans such as Neanderthals belong, but colleagues ...

"It's interesting but also a little frightening to see that in a genus like Piloderma, where we previously thought all species were common, there are such hidden old-growth forest species.

A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of Taiwan in 2010 looked human, but for ...

All told, the data from these studies suggest an initial regional branching of humans about 135,000 years ago. That is, after the emergence of Homo sapiens, groups of people subsequently moved ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...