For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

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

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

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

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Immense progress has been made over many years of archaeology and study into human evolution, and exciting new information has been uncovered via archaeology.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

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 ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The team examined how migration routes, genetic contributions from archaic ...

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going ...

John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...