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

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

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

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

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

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

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

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

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 ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

Archaeology has witnessed a number of recent new discoveries that make this an exciting time to be studying human evolution. In this piece, for example, Dr. Chris Stringer discusses how technology is ...