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

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

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

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

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

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

A new study published in Nature reveals that a distinct group of early humans lived in this region for at least 8,000 years, ...

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

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

When Matthias Meyer began studying the ancient DNA in the 400,000 year old fossils he found in the Sima de los Huesos, or Pit of Bones cave, deep beneath the Atapuerca mountains in Spain, he was ...