Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Elizabeth Sawchuk receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Jessica Thompson has received funding from the Leakey Foundation, National Geographic Society, ...

More than 400 human footprints preserved in hardened volcanic sediment are providing a rare peek at social life among ancient East African hunter-gatherers. These impressions, found in northern ...

George Busby receives funding from Wellcome, the Medical Research Council, Oxford University and The Royal Geographical Society. One of the more startling discoveries arising from genomic sequencing ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, humans sought refuge from the elements in a rocky hollow near the crook of Africa’s western coast. They crafted stone tools, ate fresh kills or gathered plants, and ...

Even after ancient humans took their first steps out of Africa, they still unexpectedly may have possessed brains more like those of great apes than modern humans, a new study suggests. What sets ...