Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens explores the extraordinary story of humankind, from our earliest ancestors to modern society. In this review, we break down the key ideas, insights, and revelations that ...

Modern humans, or Homo sapiens, are the only living Homo species. But we haven't always been alone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

Consider the phenomenon known as “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in ...

About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence in an evolutionary story that began approximately 6 million years ago and ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had ...

More than half a century ago, Chinese researchers uncovered thousands of pieces of an ancient cultural puzzle. Their summertime excavation about halfway up a hill overlooking northern China’s Shiyu ...

A new study argues that the greatest defining feature of our species is not 'symbolism' or dramatic cognitive change but rather its unique ecological position as a global 'generalist specialist'. The ...