A study comparing the DNA of people around the world has yielded what could be the best evidence yet that modern man first evolved ... suggests that the first Homo sapiens held such dramatic ...

Mounting evidence from genome studies indicates that, contrary to received wisdom, our species has undergone profound ...

Compared with modern Homo sapiens, which have only been around for the last 200,000 years, Homo erectus, or "upright man," had a long reign. The ancient ancestor of modern humans lived from 2 ...

The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

If a modern man came face-to-face with a Neanderthal ... A Neanderthal would have a clear power advantage over his Homo sapiens opponent. Many of the Neanderthals archaeologists have recovered ...

For over a thousand years, the story of human evolution was simple: Homo sapiens developed in Africa between 200,000 and ...

The face of perhaps the oldest homo ... of a modern human is adjusted so that the skull of the modern man is converted into the fossil Skhul V. "The soft tissue – skin, muscles, fat, etc.

The popular concept of a prehistoric person usually involves a thick-browed, long-armed man living in ... group that includes modern humans, extinct members of our genus, Homo, and other extinct ...

Homo soloensis. Solo Man, as the specimen came to be known, has been a point of curiosity among archaeologists ever since its discovery. The hominid resembled ancient human lineages more closely than ...

It is now recognised that at least two main natural corridors for crossing the Pyrenees were frequented by prehistoric human ...

has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in Britain. Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago and is the oldest almost complete skeleton of our species, Homo ...