Vigilantes in South Africa have carried out violent xenophobic attacks targeting African and Asian foreign nationals in ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don’t yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that ...

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. By Carl Zimmer Geography is one of the things that sets ...

A recent genetic study suggests that all living humans may trace much of their ancestry back to three African hunter-gatherer ...

Throughout history, most of the world's genomic research has relied on DNA data from people of European ancestry.

In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin ...

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going ...

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.

Scientists have long believed that hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans first learned to thrive in East African grasslands before spreading out and adapting to new environments. But a new study ...