Bharath ‘Land’ing explores the deep relationship between land, identity, and conflict in the Indian subcontinent - from ...

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

A groundbreaking genetic study confirms modern humans arrived in Australia approximately 60,000 years ago, settling a ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Africa’s landscapes are full of drama—towering cliffs, sculpted sandstone, balancing boulders and ancient rock walls etched ...