One, Homo sapiens, had just embarked on its conquest of the world after leaving Africa. The other, Homo neanderthalensis, had called Eurasia home for hundreds of thousands of years. They looked ...

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 ...

Dated to between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago, the compilation of fossils comes from a time and place with no known Homo sapiens presence ... Noting that modern human kids are often passionate ...