Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

Helena Malmström, Researcher at Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, sampling at the Florisbad research station using the mobile clean lab. In southern Africa, a group of people lived ...