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

Beyond my own family, I am trying to participate in something larger – something I felt the moment I first encountered the ...

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

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

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

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the ...

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

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

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

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.

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