Some have suggested the Toba eruption destabilized the Earth’s climate for a thousand years, or that it even triggered a global ice age, shrinking human numbers to only a few thousand.” ...

Planet Earth is now in the middle of an Ice Age that began 2.5m years ago, when glaciers advanced across the North and a cooler, drier climate arrived. Today, we are in a so-called “glacial ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

We are also developing a similar database of direct and indirect radiocarbon dates for modern humans (Homo sapiens) and neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis) to reconstruct their spread and density ...

“These finds currently represent the oldest association of probable early members of the Homo sapiens lineage and Middle Stone Age tools. They shift Morocco from a supposed backwater in the ...