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homo-sapiens

Science & Tech 4 years ago

Mind blown: Modern brains evolved much more recently than thought

Our first ancestors from the genus Homo emerged on the continent about 2.5 million years ago with primitive ape-like brains about half the size of those seen in today's humans.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

World's oldest known cave painting found in South Sulawesi

The finding described in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday provides the earliest evidence of human settlement of the region.

Science & Tech 5 years ago

Human footprints dating back 120,000 years found in Saudi Arabia

Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo and elephants bigger than any species seen today

Science & Tech 5 years ago

Bulgarian fossils show early arrival of Homo sapiens into Europe

Fragmentary bone fossils and a molar found in Bulgaria dated to roughly 45,000 years ago show that Homo sapiens populations swept into Europe - until then a bastion for the Neanderthals - earlier than previously known.

Art & Culture 6 years ago

Tracing origins of native Indonesians through archaeology

Anies Baswedan even used the term "pribumi" during his speech as a newly inaugurated Jakarta governor, which sparked a controversy.

Science & Tech 8 years ago

Moroccan fossil find rearranges Homo sapiens family tree

This week's unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth was like 300,000 years ago -- bustling with hominin species that included a very early version of our own, experts say.