M odern humans ( Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence ...

Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down. The problem, for once, isn’t a lack of fossils.

New theories propose the evolution tree as being far more complicated with branches intersecting and re-forging numerous times over ancient years. Homo sapiens were not one population but a group ...

In the phylogenetic, or family-tree species concept, ... "For me, Homo sapiens evolved between 1 million and 700,000 years ago in Africa," John Hawks, ...

A 2022 attempt at creating a sweeping family tree for the human race, and at least three others, reached back 2 million years, long before Homo sapiens are believed to have originated in Africa ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

But, like their relations at either end of the hominoid evolutionary tree, chimpanzees and Homo sapiens, ... Homo sapiens are thought to have evolved in Africa from at least 315,000 years ago.

The study, published in the journal Nature, opens new tab and involving the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever sequenced, gave a date range for the mixing of about 49,000 to 45,000 years ago.

The Tree of Life Max Telford (John Murray (UK) W. W. Norton (US, 11 November)) Most of us can imagine a tree of life; some can even sketch one out. Branches coming off branches coming off branches ...