People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

In the early days of human history — over 300,000 years ago — Homo sapiens shared the Earth with several other human species, which Kennedy aptly compares to the different races of Middle-earth in the ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Urbanization of the Human Population ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 3 (September 1965), p. 40 doi:10.1038 ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

India now hosts the world's largest tiger population, despite having the highest human density and just 18% of global tiger ...

This work highlights the utility of ancient DNA in elucidating finer scale human population dynamics in recent history. This important study provides an impressive dataset containing more than 200 ...

"And then we found this positive effect of human population density on survival time. Both of those things are unexpected because we usually associate human activity with detrimental effects on ...

Ni and Chris Stringer, research leader in human origins at London’s Natural History Museum, have another theory on how all ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...