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 ...

The Out of Africa model posits that all living humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) descend from a population that first appeared in Africa and subsequently spread throughout that continent and across ...

Homo sapiens, emerged. Mercader, who studies human evolution, explains that the archaeological research was done at Olduvai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania. "By doing archeology ...

according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first humans capable of living in such hostile terrain. The moment when the first members of the extended human ...

More than a million years ago, long before our species Homo sapiens emerged, early humans adapted to desert-like conditions. Kaplan was a co-author of the findings published Thursday in the ...

Previous research has frequently concluded that only Homo sapiens were able to adapt to such environments. Julio Mercader, Paul Durkin, and colleagues collected archaeological, geological ...

according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first humans capable of living in such hostile terrain. The moment when the first members of the extended human family ...