Now, a new discovery in northern Israel shifts the timeline of human history even further, suggesting Homo sapiens first left Africa at least 180,000 years ago. In 2002, a team of archaeologists ...

The timeline of human evolution spans approximately 9 million years, from the separation of the genus Pan until the emergence of behavioral modernity by 50,000 years ago. The first 3 million years of ...

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Such reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, they'd tell you, are, roughly speaking, as common as ice ages. That is, they're terrifically infrequent by human standards, but in geologic terms they ...