Summer reading lists are a staple in this business, often focusing on breezy fiction titles that are perfect for days spent ...

A new study published in the journal Science Advances confirms that the peopling of the Americas began much earlier than ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

The Moroccan site, known as Jebel Irhoud, was an active barite mine when it first made scientific ... we associate with anatomically modern humans probably appeared in a type of “mosaic ...

During their ... timeframe represents the period between the translocation event (856,000 to 1.3 million years ago) and the most recent common ancestor of all modern human Y chromosomes, dating ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during what is known as the African Humid Period, the desert known ... Back then, it was a savannah that early human populations settled in to take advantage ...

While the exact details are unclear, he explained, the prevailing belief for the last 20 years has been that modern humans first appeared ... (and beyond) during the period in question, making ...

Birds evolved during the Jurassic Period from small feathered ... the researchers suspect that the first anatomically modern birds actually appeared millions of years before Vegavis.

After humans first ... during the 6,000- to 7,000-year period and some groups may have continued mixing for a longer period of time.' The new dates also imply that the initial migration of ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between ... the two groups first met.

The bones of the first five Cro-Magnon ... a larger population of early modern humans who migrated across Europe, Asia, and Africa during the Upper Palaeolithic era. Another reason why the name ...