In the depths of northern Zambia, a significant archaeological discovery has emerged from beneath Kalambo Falls, altering our understanding of early human ...

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

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On a remote Indonesian island, fossils from a population of tiny humans are forcing scientists to redraw some of the clean ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

An image of early Homo sapiens. Credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / CC BY-SA 4.0 Scientists studying Neanderthal DNA have uncovered new clues about how human faces form and evolve. By examining ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ...

A recent study strongly suggests that when early humans migrated out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have played a key role in their survival — and potentially contributed to ...

Here is what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study finds compelling evidence of a previously unknown land bridge that once connected western Anatolia and southeastern Europe.

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient. When reconstructed, the more ...

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