Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man ... Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and possessing short ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Today, there are more than eight billion of us. Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down.

Homo habilis, which actually means "handy man ... Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and possessing short ...