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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances ...

Two different human species meet tens of thousands of years ago. Modern humans, fresh from Africa, encounter their stockier, cold-adapted cousins in what is now Europe. Did this initial meeting lead ...

The next time you’re doubled over with food poisoning or your kid brings home pinworms from school, consider this: People in ancient Mexico were dealing with the exact same misery. Scientists ...

Close up image of a female Culex Pipiens mosquito.The study investigated the origins of the Culex Pipiens form molestus and found that it originated more than 1,000 years ago, likely in Ancient Egypt, ...