A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and ...

Researchers developed an algorithm that maps human genetic diversity and ancestry to better understand population history.

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

While scientists know humans (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, before this monumental event much of our history has ... hidden chapter' in human evolution spanning ...

The rates, scales, kinds, and combinations of changes occurring now are fundamentally different from those at any other time in history. . . . We live on a human-dominated planet and the momentum of ...

The study authors now believe it belonged to the same population of prehistoric ... Chris Stringer, a research leader in human evolution at London’s Natural History Museum, said the discovery ...