Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Sacrificial victims in mass burials were mostly male, while burial attendants for nobles or elites were overwhelmingly female ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...