A groundbreaking digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull in China suggests humans may have emerged and co-existed hundreds of thousands of years earlier than scientists previously believed.

Anthropological genetics is an interdisciplinary field that integrates genomic tools with anthropological inquiry to elucidate the patterns and processes underlying human evolution, migration, and ...

Humans have always migrated to survive. When glaciers advanced, when rivers dried up, when cities fell, people moved. Their journeys were often painful, but necessary, whether across deserts, ...

Marlize Lombard works for the University of Johannesburg. She received funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest ...

Could a newly discovered fossil in Egypt fundamentally change everything scientists currently know about human evolution? Here's what we know so far about this remarkable find and its potential impact ...