Scientists discovered humans descended from two ancient populations, not one. These groups split 1.5 million years ago.

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Your Neanderthal genes might be the reason you fight infections better- find out how ancient DNA shapes your health!

A woman from the Pittsburgh area went missing while traveling through North Carolina in 2021. Now police are trying to ...

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

Human remains found on the shore in Washington state nearly 17 years ago have now been identified as belonging to Jeffrey ...

The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies ...

The Shasta County Coroner's Office has teamed with a Texas firm to help identify a man who was killed more than 20 years ago ...