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

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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 ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

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

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

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

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...