The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Images capture the remarkable variety of petroglyphs etched into rock across a wide swathe of land, from Mongolia to the ...

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...