Aug 16, 2025 · Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record?

Mar 18, 2025 · A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

Dec 20, 2024 · Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

Sep 29, 2025 · Learn about how Homo sapiens came to be with the latest human evolution news, features and articles from Live Science.

Sep 2, 2025 · A new fossil find in the Republic of Georgia is expanding our understanding of the earliest humans to leave Africa.

Aug 15, 2025 · Once humans left Africa, "you have so much complexity that it makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens," Athreya said.

Dec 11, 2024 · The question of whether Neanderthals can be considered the same species as modern humans is complicated by our understanding of what a species is, Jeff Schwartz, a …

Sep 1, 2009 · Humans come in a rainbow of hues, from dark chocolate browns to nearly translucent whites. This full kaleidoscope of skin colors was a relatively recent evolutionary …

Jan 23, 2025 · Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments.

Aug 30, 2023 · A newly described fossil suggests that the ancestor of humans and apes arose in Europe, not in Africa.