10,000-Year-Old Genomes Rewrite Human Evolution ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans ...

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Researchers are exploring the idea that one hemisphere of Earth, dominated by the Pacific Ocean, is losing internal heat ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

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 ...