Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

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 ...

By H. G. Wells. (An amalgamation and modernization of two books—“The Fate of Homo Sapiens” and “The New World Order”, published severally in 1939 and 1940. Pp. 287. (London: Seeker and ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split ... typical modern human characteristics instead built up over time. They also suggest that there ...

Blood group characteristics, although crucial for ... or competition with Homo sapiens. The article was written with the ...

Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five ... similarities in how people disposed of their dead. These characteristics include the highly flexed position of the ...

The stone tool assemblages from this period had distinct characteristics such as the ... establishment and cultural ...

A lecturer in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harari is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, out in the U.S. in February. We traded emails about human contradiction ...

Sharp drops in global temperatures helped seal the fate of three extinct hominin species, including our close relatives, the Neanderthals, according to thousands of archaeological specimens and a ...