For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...
Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...
More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...
New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...
An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.
Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.
One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...
A sweeping new genetic analysis suggests that humans living in southern Africa spent roughly 100,000 years in isolation, long ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...