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

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

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

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

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...