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

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

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

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

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

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

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

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

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