More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just beginning to grasp their genetic data.

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

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

DNA synthesis is going global. The biosecurity rules aren’t keeping up.

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...