Vintage photographs of gay and lesbian couples and their stories.
Paleoanthropologists have traditionally used four traits to classify hominins as members of the genus Homo. But none of the criteria are very stringent, leading to an assortment of hominins with widely varying features being counted in the same genus. Some researchers think it’s time to scrap Homo and start over.
Homo naledi, discovered in a cave near Johannesburg, is a human ancestor unlike any species previously known. The find is arguably one of the most important discoveries in human origins research in half a century. It’s also the most perplexing.
EXPAND Evidence has been piling up for a while that early humans in Europe had children with the Neanderthals who had been living there for probably 500 thousand years before humans arrived. Very f…
A new hominin species has been unearthed in the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system in the largest assemblage of a single species of hominins yet discovered in Africa.
A recent 3D-comparative analysis confirms the status of Homo floresiensis as a fossil human species. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull from Eastern Europe has been pitched as disproving a decades-old paradigm in human evolution. Its discoverers claim the find sinks more than a dozen species…
Homo naledi, discovered in a cave near Johannesburg, is a human ancestor unlike any species previously known. The find is arguably one of the most important discoveries in human origins research in half a century. It’s also the most perplexing.
Neanderthals, often thought to be vastly different from Homo sapiens aka modern humans, have been brought closer to us.
Scientists share the findings that helped them pinpoint key moments in the rise of our species
Did modern humans drive Homo floresiensis to extinction? A new study revises the date of extinction of Homo floresiensis.
A discovery that will change world human history
Europeans referred to East Asians as white until the end of the 18th century. But as the Chinese and Japanese resisted cultural assimilation they darkened – both in Western eyes and their own
The development of human language is one of the most important and most mysterious events in the history of Homo sapiens. We humans are the only great ape — the only species anywhere — that is capable of practically infinite expression.
Modern DNA suggests that the Denisovans were surprisingly diverse—and may have been the last humans other than Homo sapiens on Earth.
Egészen mostanáig azt feltételezték a tudósok, hogy az állandó tűzgyújtás és használat képessége a modern ember privilégiuma volt, amire nagyjából ötven-hetvenezer éve tett szert a Homo sapiens. Egy dél-afrikai ásatáson előkerült bizonyítékok szerint azonban egy egészen 2015-ig ismeretlen kihalt emberfaj a Homo sapiens előtt csaknem kétszázezer évvel korábban már rendszeresen használta a tüzet.
Travel through America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe and meet the earliest Homo sapiens on each continent. FIRST PEOPLES tells the story of how early Homo sapiens moved around the globe and...
We can only guess what the future will look like. But the past? We have evidence to help us paint a picture of it. To visit it.
