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Historians, scholars and museum officials throughout Atlanta and the South fear the order could alter the way American history has been taught and digested for decades.

Organizers of Oakland's First Fridays art festival made a flyer promoting the event using AI, and are facing backlash for not using an actual artist. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

Beneath the white gypsum dunes of New Mexico, scientists have uncovered something remarkable—trails of footprints that ...

Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

About 300,000 years ago, these groups came back together, with one group contributing 80% of the genetic makeup of modern humans and the other contributing 20%. “Our history is far richer and more ...

“For a long time, it’s been assumed that we evolved from a single continuous ancestral lineage, but the exact details of our origins are uncertain.” Previous genetic studies identified early modern ...

"The question of where we come from is one that has fascinated humans for centuries," says geneticist Trevor Cousins, first author of the published study. In biology, we often describe genetics and ...

The researchers involved with the new study didn’t need to rely on elusive ancient remains to establish this revised chapter of human history. Instead, they tapped into modern human DNA from the 1000 ...

While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, before this monumental event much of our history has been hazy. Now a team from the University of ...