Understand what makes us human — from our ancient ancestors to modern behaviors. Explore weird facts, psychology, evolution, and everything in between.
It is estimated that about 1% to 4% of the total genome of all people who did not originate from Africa is from the Neanderthals. This is a result of interbreeding between the two species, and up to this day, it is still heavily influencing our bodies and behavior, such as our sleeping patterns and … Read more
If you are not aware, it is now a fact that Homo Sapiens, or modern humans, have interbred with another human species, the Neanderthals. The evidence is embedded in some people’s DNA, especially those who are not of African descent. It is estimated that they have about 1 to 4% Neanderthal DNA. This is not … Read more
Neanderthals are one of the groups of ancient human species that existed long before the modern Homo Sapiens. They lived in Europe and Asia for hundreds of thousands of years, and have even walked the Earth along with us at some point in time. Today, they are now extinct, but their remains and fossils still … Read more
Homo Sapiens have only been using math for a few thousand years, but recent studies suggest that even ancient human species might have understood them too, long before we existed on this planet. Mathematics, as most of you know, is one of the most complicated and difficult concepts for our minds to master, even with … Read more
Many people believe that when a new species appears, another one vanishes. This is a common notion among the public about evolution, and it is actually wrong because that is not how nature works. This is also the reason why the question of why there are still monkeys if we evolved from them is popular … Read more
When you think of human evolution, you probably think of an event that happened thousands of years ago, where we evolved from an ape species to multiple other human species, before Homo Sapiens were born on this world. However, that is the wrong way to think of it, because evolution is still happening everywhere around … Read more
Humans are undoubtedly smarter than they were 100,000 years ago. But that statement is not actually accurate, as most people would think. The reality is we have accumulated so much knowledge and complex technologies that made our primitive ancestors look dumber than we do. Studies have shown that human anatomy, even from the past, has … Read more
Did you know that a long time ago, at one point, modern humans were not the only human species walking around the planet? Scientists have estimated that there are at least 8 other human species living on Earth at the same time we did. They all lived across Africa, Europe, and Asia with varying sizes … Read more
The vast majority of human beings in history originated from Africa. The scientific evidence points to that continent as the place where homo sapiens evolved from before spreading throughout Europe and the rest of the world. That also means that the majority of people back then had dark skin tone and eye color. However, the … Read more
We already know that blue eyes are a genetic mutation that only happened recently compared to hundreds of thousands of years of human existence. It has been traced back to around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago in a person who lived in Europe. However, a new fossil found indicates that the first person to have … Read more
