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

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

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 ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

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 ...