Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

The prevailing narrative in human history is that humanity emerged from Africa, which is true to an extent, but there may be ...

A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

P eople living in North Africa today can trace their ancestry back to a unique human population that lived in the Sahara at a ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

A groundbreaking discovery in Greece reveals the first known Homo sapiens outside Africa, reshaping our understanding of ...

Cornelia, an advanced operating system, is born in a factory in China in a ritual that carefully prepares her to be sent to ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...