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

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

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

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

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

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 ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

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 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...