All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old ... for some period of time before we constructed our first languages. "Language is both a cognitive system and a communication system ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 230,000 years old ... for some period of time before we constructed our first languages. "Language is both a cognitive system and a communication system ...

The mechanisms behind the development of human language are one of the great mysteries of primate evolution. Biologists have ...

The first theory, known as the 'Out of Africa' model, is that Homo sapiens developed first in Africa and then spread around the world between 100 and 200,000 years ago, superseding all other ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Gibraltar 1, the first adult female Neanderthal skull ever discovered The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and ...

By H. G. Wells. (An amalgamation and modernization of two books—“The Fate of Homo Sapiens” and “The New World Order”, published severally in 1939 and 1940. Pp. 287. (London: Seeker and ...

A lecturer in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harari is the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, out in the U.S. in February. We traded emails about human contradiction ...

For the first time in over ... these sites vary—from modern Homo sapiens to archaic Neanderthal-like forms—their tools and practices speak a common cultural language. What makes the Tinshemet ...