These fossils have also been lumped into catch-all terms like "archaic H. sapiens" and "Middle Pleistocene Homo," and are sometimes informally called "the muddle in the Middle." Writing about the ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

The bulk of the human population were archaic members of our species, Homo sapiens, which first appeared in southern Africa about 100,000 to 300,000 years ago. By 74,000 years ago, these people ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo ... least 1.2 million years ago -- long before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged. Mercader, who studies human evolution ...

Human bones were first discovered at the site in 1961, and their strange combination of archaic and modern features ... years after Neanderthals and Homo sapiens last shared a common ancestor ...

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 ...

However, the Denisovans were the first archaic human to be identified in ... to allow a formal scientific species name such as Homo sapiens or Homo neanderthalensis. A skull is typically, but ...