Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

The recently discovered Soii Havzak rock shelter in Central Asia is extremely rare and potentially groundbreaking because it holds several phases of Paleolithic occupation: Denisovans, Neanderthals, ...

Human evolution is complex and fascinating, but it is filled with various terms and names related to past humans and hominin ...

Humans once had a way smaller footprint. "Homo Sapiens, modern humans, evolved in Africa," says Arev Sümer, a paleogenetics PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...