What was the first human species?
Learn about early species in the genus Homo and scholarly debates over what defines being human.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Watch as a shadow slowly crosses the Earth.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The die-off of the dinosaurs is different from the extinction of the dodo.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.And how do you even start to answer this question?Media Editor: Lauren Sims
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about a controversial 2017 study that used thorium/uranium dating of broken mastodon bones to argue that a prehistoric human species, such as Neanderthals, lived in North America some 130,000 years ago.
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© World Science Festival (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Psycholinguist Steven Pinker discussing early modern humans' “cognitive niche” in evolution.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Vladislav Kochelaevskiy/Dreamstime.com; © Photoblueice/Dreamstime.comView researchers at the anthropological institute in Göttingen studying DNA taken from Bronze Age skeletons found in the Lichtenstein Cave, Harz mountains, northern Germany.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.When in doubt, check for a tail.
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