TopicHomo sapiens

Topic: Homo sapiens

From body to brains and personality, here’s how humans will look like after 10,000 years

Nicholas R Longrich - 6 March, 2022

Humanity is the unlikely result of 4 billion years of evolution. From self-replicating molecules in Archean seas, to eyeless fish in the Cambrian deep, to...

Microfossils suggest our ancestors interacted with some early humans in Thar Desert, study says

Mohana Basu - 8 October, 2021

Researchers say Acheulean populations continued to live in the Thar Desert, even after they disappeared from eastern Africa around 214,000 years ago and Arabia 190,000 years ago.

Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ skull in China could add new species to human family tree

Mohana Basu - 27 June, 2021

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‘Survival of the friendliest’ – How being docile help humans and dogs to thrive

Cass Sunstein - 27 November, 2019

Research shows that humans and dogs have flourished compared to other species like Neanderthals or wolves because they are calm, cooperative and less aggressive.

Botswana was the ancestral homeland of all humans, says study

Sandhya Ramesh - 29 October, 2019

Homo sapiens first walked the Earth near the Zambezi river, where they lived for 70,000 years.

There’s a new problem ⁠— the term ‘modern humans’ doesn’t cut it any more

Faye Flam - 1 August, 2019

Scientists are pondering whether to differentiate our ancestors as neanderthals, denisovans, etc, or just call them all 'people' as genetics show modern humans aren't that diverse.

Five reasons why 2018 was a big year for palaeontology

Julien Benoit - 16 December, 2018

Some of the big events included some major fossil finds and a major controversy whose outcome could rewrite human history.

The story of a very special 90,000-year-old girl

Sandhya Ramesh - 23 August, 2018

The fossil of a 13-year-old found in Siberia reinforces the theory that different subspecies of human predecessors courted each other and interbred often.