Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe ... rather than being the primitive offspring of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals were in fact an innovative and ...

But others, such as anthropologist Robert Martin of Chicago's Field Museum, say the bones belong to small Homo sapiens—perhaps people who suffered from microcephaly, a condition in which the ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens ... part of a finger bone found in caves ...

Researchers still have no reason to suspect that Homo sapiens even left Africa until 100,000 years ago at the earliest, which means that whoever was swinging axes at Mastodon bones on the West ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago. At the time the tools were made, three different species of human ancestors lived ...

We now know that many mammal species can interbreed. In my view, if Neanderthals and Homo sapiens remained separate long enough to evolve such distinctive skull shapes, pelvises and ear bones, they ...