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

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

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

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

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth's ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was in Erie Dec. 4 as the final speaker of the 17th season of the Jefferson Educational Society's ...