The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...

Insights into South African population history from 10,000-year-old human DNA. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 09 / 240919115012.htm ...

Some of the genes from Population B, "particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role in human evolution," study co-author Trevor Cousins, a ...

Neanderthals may not have truly gone extinct but instead may have been absorbed into the modern human population. That's one of the implications of a new study, which finds modern human DNA may ...

So human history cannot be understood without understanding African history. View of the Oakhurst rock shelter valley, Oakhurst farm, near Hoekwil, South Africa. V Gibbon. , Author provided (no reuse) ...

New research has revealed an incredible discovery: modern humans carry 20% of their genetic material from a mysterious population that split from our ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This study ...

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas.

These fossils, they say, belong to a distinct group with its own role in the human family tree. The Juluren lived between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago. That means they shared the planet with early ...

It’s a small world – and we’re needing to share more and more of it. The global population passed eight billion in 2022, and is set to rise by another two billion over the next 60 years. Demand for ...