The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past 18 years to indicate an initial branching of humans about 135,000 years ago ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

After the horrors of World War II and yet again in humanity’s history, law was seen as a rational means for containing such ...

"Our approach is very empirically based, grounded in the latest genetic understanding of early homo sapiens," Miyagawa says. "I think we are on a good research arc, and I hope this will encourage ...

Discoveries in Tinshemet Cave reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than originally thought.

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...