- Evidence of Europe’s first Homo sapiens found in French cave https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00389-9 8 comments anthropology
- Evidence of Europe’s first Homo sapiens found in French cave https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00389-9 7 comments europe
- Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had similar auditory and speech capacities https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01391-6 3 comments science
- How did civilizations all over the world start with a few thousand years of each other considering Homo sapiens have existed far longer. https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/944x5p/how_did_civilizations_all_over_the_world_start/ 42 comments history
- Scientists have captured ice that formed before Homo sapiens existed https://news.osu.edu/news/2017/12/13/stoneagecore/ 29 comments science
- Homo sapiens bones in East Africa are at least 36,000 years older than once thought https://www.sciencenews.org/article/homo-sapiens-human-bones-ethiopia-omo-africa-older 5 comments anthropology
- Police chief in discrimination case claims ‘homo’ was short for homo sapien. Seriously. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/26/lorain-police-chief-james-mccann-discrimination-claim-homo-sapien-gay/ 30 comments politics
- Rethinking the origin of Homo sapiens https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/rethinking-the-origins-of-homo-sapiens 10 comments worldnews
- Homo sapiens origin pushed back by 100,000 years. https://www.mpg.de/11322481/oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-at-jebel-irhoud-morocco 4 comments science
- Aside from height, did homo sapiens look significantly different in the distant past? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5b9gn2/aside_from_height_did_homo_sapiens_look/ 7 comments askscience
- The Psychopath: A New Subspecies of Homo Sapien http://www.sott.net/articles/show/208242-the-psychopath-a-new-subspecies-of-homo-sapien 3 comments reddit.com
- An mtDNA view of the peopling of the world by Homo sapiens http://www.cambridgedna.com/genealogy-dna-ancient-migrations-slideshow.php?view=step1 3 comments reddit.com
- Bolton’s Moral Compass: ‘...homo sapiens are hard-wired for violent conflict, and we’re not going to eliminate violent conflict until homo sapiens ceases to exist as a separate species." http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/11/bolton-violent-conflict/ 10 comments politics
- Discovery in France suggests Homo Sapiens arrived in Europe 12,000 years earlier than thought, potentially coexisting with Neanderthals until the latter's extinction around 40,000BC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60305218 9 comments anthropology
- Scientists use a dating technique involving ostrich eggshells to more precisely calculate the emergence of ancient homo sapiens in Eastern Africa. https://www.inverse.com/science/ancient-humans-origins 6 comments science
- Fossils discovered in Morocco push back origin of Homo sapiens by 100,000 years http://www.nature.com/news/oldest-homo-sapiens-fossil-claim-rewrites-our-species-history-1.22114 2311 comments science
- If Neanderthals were a separate species, how were Homo Sapiens able to produce fertile offspring with them? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5b5rj0/if_neanderthals_were_a_separate_species_how_were/ 15 comments askscience
- 'Hobbits' found on Flores island are not Homo sapiens, but mystery remains http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-16/hobbits-on-flores-island-not-humans-like-us/7172446 1064 comments worldnews
- A Parthian shot. Neanderthals’ parting gifts to Homo sapiens were disease-causing genes http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21692847-neanderthals-parting-gifts-homo-sapiens-were-disease-causing-genes?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/aparthianshot 3 comments science
- New paper proves that Africans and Eurasians are separate subspecies of Homo sapiens. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.8263v1.pdf 58 comments science
- Neanderthals were probably not the only other Homo species early Homo sapiens mixed with http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627603.600-neanderthals-not-the-only-apes-humans-bred-with.html 10 comments science
- A new study identifies the earliest human burial in Africa, shedding light on the customs of early Homo sapiens. https://www.inverse.com/science/scientists-find-earliest-burial-in-africa 11 comments science
- Human teeth found in Jersey hint at Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interbreeding https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/february/human-teeth-in-jersey-hint-at-neanderthal-homo-sapiens-interbreeding.html 3 comments anthropology
- Homo sapiens originated in Africa, so why did Europe develop into the world's centre of power throughout most of history, colonizing the rest of the world? Why didn't our origin remain as our centre? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He#Expeditions 56 comments askscience
- Scientists used the “longest climate simulation model” to detail how ancient climate impacted the evolution of early humans, suggesting Homo sapiens originated in southern Africa some 300,000 years ago. https://www.inverse.com/science/ancient-climate-altered-human-evolution-study 82 comments science
- Researchers have discovered a series of genes that may have given Homo sapiens a significant edge over Neanderthals. The findings suggest that these genes played "a fundamental role in the evolution of creativity, self-awareness and cooperative behavior" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210423-creative-genes-gave-homo-sapiens-edge-over-neanderthals-study 3 comments anthropology
- TIL that Homo Sapiens and Jellyfish shared a common mitochondrial ancestor 933.6 million years ago. TimeTree can query any two taxa and show common ancestry and evolutionary divergence. Oh, and they have a free app for that too. http://www.timetree.org 8 comments science
- An excavation of sea caves revealed that Neanderthals, sometime between 86,000 to 106,000 years ago, ate a variety of seafood. Study authors argue this diet likely gave them a big cognitive boost (Omega-3s, zinc, etc). Previously, only Homo sapiens were thought to have gotten this advantage. https://www.inverse.com/science/neanderthals-food-intelligence 108 comments science
- Humans are giving many other species cancer: Meta-analysis finds enough to classify Homo sapiens as an “oncogenic species” https://cutit.org/7hw7m 5 comments science
- Remains of 40,000-year-old Homo sapien help scientists map first human migration routes out of Africa http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/2013718134940330104.html?utm_content=automate&utm_campaign=trial6&utm_source=newsocialflow&utm_term=plustweets&utm_medium=masteraccount 9 comments science
- Neanderthal’s lives were just as violent as those of early Homo sapiens, according to a new study that compared injuries on ancient human skeletons. Past Work claimed that inferior, close-range hunting methods and a violent social culture made the species more prone to injury. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/11/15/neanderthals-head-trauma-hunting-homo-sapiens/#.w_abgghmhyu 7 comments science
- Cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPVs) diverged from common ancestors approximately half a million years ago, coinciding with the split between Neanderthals and modern Homo sapiens, with viral sexual transmission from Neanderthals to modern humans through interbreeding over past 80,000 years. https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007352 9 comments science
- A newly found finger fossil in Saudi Arabia is the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa and a narrow strip of the Middle East. This puts people in Arabia as early as 86,000 years ago. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/finger-fossil-puts-people-arabia-least-86000-years-ago?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r_science 11 comments science
- Human remains found in hobbit cave: Ancient teeth make Homo sapiens the lead suspect in the extinction of Homo floresiensis. Teeth are slightly younger than known hobbit remains, which strengthens case humans were responsible for the species’ demise. http://www.nature.com/news/human-remains-found-in-hobbit-cave-1.20656 59 comments worldnews
- Mutation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in Homo sapiens reduced toxicity of woodsmoke and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons compared to Neanderthals, leading to an evolutionary advantage following the domestication of fire. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/17/molbev.msw143.abstract 7 comments science
- Artificial intelligence: 'Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us' -- "A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end" http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/07/artificial-intelligence-homo-sapiens-split-handful-gods 16 comments technology
- The world’s oldest tools made by ancestors of modern humans some 3.3 million years ago have been found in Kenya. They are about 700,000 years older than the previous record holder and are likely to have been made by Australopithecus, an ancestor of Homo sapiens, or another species, Kenyanthropus. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/tools-found-near-lake-turkana-in-kenya-are-worlds-oldest-10180148.html 126 comments history
- A 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record — revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned northern Asia http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/45-000-year-old-mans-genome-sequenced/ 3 comments russia
- Primal Outrage: Can Homo Sapiens Use Our Inherent "Inequity Aversion" to Topple the 1%? We have a sizable capacity for the practice of "tactical deception." But there are countervailing primate characteristics that turn the tables on the manipulators when conditions are right. http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11200-primal-outrage-can-homo-sapiens-use-our-inherent-inequity-aversion-to-topple-the-1-percent 3 comments politics
- Homo sapiens was originally unable to digest raw milk. - Location of the first humans who were lactose-tolerant due to a genetic mutation. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/bild-723310-141465.html 234 comments science