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

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

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

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 ...

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

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...