Sapiens The palm oil industry in Indonesia has led to widespread deforestation, making it hard to find remaining signs of archaic life. Donal Husni / NurPhoto / Getty Images From the air ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The emergence of artistic expression, abstract thought, and symbolic behavior may have occurred much earlier in human history ...

However, the Denisovans were the first archaic human to be identified in a lab thanks to ... distinctive enough to allow a formal scientific species name such as Homo sapiens or Homo neanderthalensis.

The conventional belief held that only Homo sapiens could survive in these harsh ecosystems in the long term, with earlier hominins thought to be restricted to more limited ecological ranges.

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans (Homo sapiens) migrating out of Africa ... somewhere in southeast Asia with another group of archaic hominins, the mysterious Denisovans, adding ...