Recent African Origin of Modern Humans

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range of environments

This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.

Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal genes that humans inherited.

Researchers have named a new species in the Homo genus. What do we know about these "big headed" people?

The origins of Greece and the illusions of Afrocentrists.

How man went from bumbling around in savannahs to building the Great Wall, and why China fell behind Europe

Modern human DNA found in Neanderthal genomes offers clues to how our archaic ancestors disappeared, according to a new study.

Ancient DNA study gives a Neanderthal-eye view of prehistory, offers clues to how our cousins vanished

Revolutionary ancient DNA evidence indicates that Homo sapiens finished off Neanderthals through deadly infectious diseases, says academic Jonathan Kennedy

A growing body of evidence indicates that our ancestors left Africa between approximately 70 to 60 thousand years ago. Yet, it wasn\'t until around 45,000 years ago that they spread across Eurasia.

An archaeological site in Ethiopia has revealed that a population of humans survived the eruption of Sumatra's Mount Toba 74,000 years ago.

An archaeological site in Ethiopia revealed the oldest-known arrowheads and the remnants of a major volcanic eruption.

Professor Roberto Trotta from Imperial College London's Department of Physics is a theoretical physicist by training and astrophysicist by trade. His work explores how statistics and machine learning can help us turn complex datasets from telescopes on Earth and in space into real-life understanding.

A new technique for analyzing modern genetic data suggests that prehumans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals

The population of early humans dwindled to around 1,280 individuals during a time of dramatic climate change and remained that small for about 117,000 years,...

Why is it that our species has come to dominate not only our warm ancestral lands but every part of the globe?

A new genetic analysis found that the size of Neanderthal noses was passed down to modern humans.

For more than a decade, the intelligence officials have said Chinese telecom gear could hijack US networks. After many years and billions in funding, Huawei and ZTE equipment is still in US networks.