Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Most modern humans with non-African ancestry carry small amounts of Neanderthal DNA across much of their genome but have little-to-none on their X chromosomes. New research from Penn challenges an old ...

At some point in our evolutionary history, our ancestors made the leap from primitive hominins to sophisticated modern humans, though anthropologists have yet to agree on when this happened. For some, ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man (right) based on skull found at the La Ferrassie rock shelter in Dordogne Valley, France. He's face to face with a male Homo sapien. If you've ever seen what a ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

Learn more about malarial infections from Plasmodium falciparum, and their influence on human movement and interaction around ...

Many people today simply assume that our evolution has quietly ended with the development of the modern human. It's easy to think that medicine, science, and modern living have made us "perfect" or ...