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

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

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

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, ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

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.

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

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

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

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...