Ancient human footprints discovery could rewrite the history of human migration ...

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

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Reconstruction of a 1 million-year-old skull shows that early human groups split and diversified quickly.

An algorithm scanned 78 million genetic variants and found patterns that shouldn't exist. Most human DNA tells a familiar story—but some of it defies explanation. Researchers discovered genetic ...

Introduction. Rethinking the human revolution: Eurasian and African perspectives / Paul Mellars -- pt. 1. Biological and demographic perspectives on modern human origins. The origin and dispersal of ...

In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin ...

Early humans : of whom do we speak? / Richard E. Leakey -- Homo habilis - a premature discovery : remembered by one of its founding fathers, 42 years later / Phillip V. Tobias -- Where does the genus ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

If you put a pair of headphones on one of the earliest creatures resembling mammals, would it start rocking out to the music, or would it hardly be able to hear anything? There have been arguments ...