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

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

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

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

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

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...

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

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...