Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

The ongoing intrigue should come as no surprise because, for a long time, Neanderthals were the model for the missing link between our own species, Homo sapiens, and the first apelike pre-human ...

A Chukchi reindeer herder. The Chukchi are an ethnic group native to Siberia. (Image credit: Natalie Fobes via Getty Images) Into Europe The earliest evidence of H. sapiens in Europe is from ...