Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

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

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...