Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

Analysis - New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who ...

Migration began 6,000 years ago and lasted until around 1,000 years ago. Today, more than 400 million people speak Austronesian languages, spanning a wide area that covers more than one-third of the ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

hLife adopts format-free submission. Format-free submission means that, provided you include everything necessary for review ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia ...

A leopard cat, which is under second-class state protection in China, is seen in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on ...

For most of Europe’s history, the people who lived there did not resemble the pale figures often shown in history books. New genetic research now shows that dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes ...