Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous ...

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

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. Using advanced analysis based ...

By the time modern humans began filtering into Europe around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals they encountered were already ...

This project has been funded with federal funds under Contract No. HHSN263201800029I (75N98021F00009) between the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Health and Human Services, National ...