A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

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

The term Cro-Magnon is still widely used, but modern anthropology no longer recognizes it as a separate species. This explains how the label originated, how it became tied to outdated racial ideas, ...

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

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

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The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...