The evolutionary tree that produced Homo sapiens might contain more knots than previously thought. Researchers have ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

A new method of analyzing modern humans' DNA is revealing secrets about our extinct ancestors.

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

The discovery comes from Üçağızlı II Cave, a site near one of the most important migration routes in human history. The ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late ...

Most people alive today possess a small amount of Neanderthal DNA—a biological relic from tens of thousands of years ago, when Homo sapiens coexisted with our closest evolutionary cousins. A new study ...

No longer can the tale of one single human migration out of Africa 60,000 years ago be considered an accurate history of humankind, said a review of scientific literature Thursday. Rather, multiple ...

When humans hooked up with Neanderthals, we could have wooed them with music and fancy jewellery. The oldest DNA of a modern human ever to be sequenced shows that the Homo sapiens who interbred with ...

The nature of evolution -- Early hominins -- Origin of modern humans -- The exodus out of Africa -- The settlement of the Near East -- Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Hobbits -- Dispersals into India -- ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...