A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

"Pathogens are one of the strongest selective pressures." ...

The people of Near Oceania carry a genetic legacy that stretches back almost to the beginning of humanity’s expansion across the globe. This legacy comes, at least partly, from some of the earliest ...

A molar found in Cobra Cave in Laos and dated to roughly 164,000 to 131,000 years ago may be the first physical evidence that ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

Learn more about the origins of language, and how our ancient ancestors may have developed it in a sudden jump rather than ...

The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...

Ancient human DNA has survived on Iberian cave walls for up to 16,700 years, extracted from both painted surfaces and bare ...

Deep history undermines some of the stories authoritarian ideologies tell us about humanity. Against the myths of racial ...

Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

Scientists detected gases on exoplanet K2-18b linked to life on Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope's future results show a ...