Across the South Pacific, tucked between rainforests and volcanic mountains, Papua New Guinea holds one of the most ...

Ancient stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi represent the oldest evidence for humans living there 1 ...

The discovery of ancient human cousins has long stirred wonder and debate. Early Neanderthal remains offered a glimpse into ...

Some scientists believe humans became bipedal to adapt to climate change, but our closest primate ancestors complicate that ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

The study amalgamated data from eight distinct databases encompassing modern and ancient human genomes, comprising a total of 3,609 individual genome sequences from 215 populations.

What Trait Sets Humans Apart? Hint: It’s Not Our Thumbs Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion ...

Now researchers have found the first genetic material from West Africa. On Wednesday a team reported that they had recovered DNA from four individuals in Cameroon, dating back as far as 8,000 years.

— -- The oldest near-complete fossil of a human ancestor ever found in southern Africa was unveiled to the public for the first time today.

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Protein sequences preserved in four ...

Analysis casts doubt on ancient drying of northern Africa's climate, raising new questions about early human evolution by Kevin Stacey, Brown University edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan ...