The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Why are some people drawn towards exploration and challenge – even to the point of extreme danger? Alex Hutchinson's bracing ...

It was also home to early human communities, including 15 women and children archaeologists found buried at the rock shelter, ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team ...

Analysis of ancient pollen grains from Longtan revealed ... that highlight Eastern and Southeastern Asia as hotspots for human origins research,” said Ben Utting, a postdoctoral fellow in ...

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...