Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

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

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

A major new study has revealed that a group of people in southern Africa lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands ...

A research group led by Drs. Shusuke Tada and Takashi Tsuyama at the Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of ...

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

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

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

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.

Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances ...