Pretty soon we'll reach a point where we're no longer Homo Sapiens (literally, man the wise) and have become Homo Deus: man the god. We could become part of a massive new underclass of "useless ...

Yuval Noah Harari’s books illuminate history, technology, and society with bold and interesting insights. A compelling ...

PARIS — In 2017, paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin, now a professor at the Collège de France, shook up his discipline by pushing back our species’ origins by 100,000 years. While the ...

Cave dwelling, clothing and sunscreen may be the reason Homo sapiens outlasted the Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Neanderthals became extinct about 40,000 years ago, leaving modern humans as ...

Findings, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, show that different hominin groups, including Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like populations, weren't just existing in parallel.

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 ...