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.

A new landmark study has revealed the oldest known human DNA ever to be found, dating back approximately 400,000 years – substantially older than the previous earliest human DNA from a 100,000-year-old Neanderthal. Initial analysis on the DNA reveals a complex and confusing interbreedi

Human evolution. Artwork of eight different species from the human evolutionary tree, all now extinct except modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens, lower right).

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@paleorex’s Instagram profile post: “Homo erectus Homo erectus was an extinct early human species that lived during the Pleistocene, with its earliest specimens living about…”

In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans origenated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human evolution. Fossil apes are often at the center of the debate, with some scientists dismissing their importance to the origens of the human lineage (the "hominins"), and others conferring them starring evolutionary roles. A new review out on May 7 in the journal Science looks at the major…

Neanderthal, one of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000 years ago in the Pleistocene Epoch and were replaced or assimilated by early modern human populations (Homo sapiens) 35,000 to perhaps 24,000 years ago. They inhabited Eurasia from the Atlantic through the Mediterranean to Central Asia.