Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding the ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East Africa, then spread south later. It’s clean, familiar, and easy to repeat.

A research team simulated Earth's climate history 2 million years ago. Their work suggests human expansion is inextricably tied to climate shifts.

View of the village of Kuboes, on the border of South Africa and Namibia. DNA samples were collected from Nama individuals who have historically lived in the region. (Brenna Henn/UC Davis) In testing ...

“The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,”remarked Aylwyn Scally, a geneticist at the University of ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

Neanderthals, a species of the genus Homo, appeared about 400,000 years ago and coexisted with Homo sapiens (modern humans) for a long time before going extinct about 40,000 years ago. There are ...

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Learn more about mammal monogamy rates, which support the theory that the primary mating pattern in Homo sapiens is monogamy.