That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The northern China region was inhabited by different human species at a time. New research has confirmed that a species of ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no ...

The most recent addition to the human family tree – named after its unusually fat head – roamed northern China at the same ...

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It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

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