Hundreds of millennia before our own species left Africa, an archaic hominin related to Homo erectus embarked on its own ...

Modern humans spread across different parts of the world by migrating out of Africa, but initial attempts met with disappointing failure. However, before the daring migration out of Africa into ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated by ancient humans that today are submerged under water due to sea-level ...

No longer can the tale of one single human migration out of Africa 60,000 years ago be considered an accurate history of humankind, said a review of scientific literature Thursday. Rather, multiple ...

Deep genomic sequencing of the Tsimane and Hadza peoples reveals that hundreds of gut bacterial species co-migrated with ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly around 50,000 years ago. Scientists discovered that before this successful ...

Archaeologists working at the Orozmani site in Georgia said they found a 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone. The jawbone, found alongside stone tools and animal fossils, is one of the oldest human ...

Learn more about the new study which suggests humans had to adapt to different environments within the African continent before being able to successfully migrate out of it. The earliest modern humans ...

New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who lived in ...