Modern humans now permanently live on every continent except Antarctica, but it wasn't always this way. After our species, ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and presents some of the earliest evidence of seafaring ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world Guy Gugliotta Christopher Henshilwood (in Blombos Cave) dug at one of the most important early human sites partly out of ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...