Modern humans now permanently live on every continent except Antarctica, but it wasn't always this way. After our species, ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

This is something of a misnomer, for Eve was neither the first modern human nor the only woman alive 200,000 years ago. But she did live at a time when the modern human population was small—about ...

Using a specially developed simulation model, researchers at the University of Cologne have traced and analyzed the dynamics ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But new ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

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