Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...

On Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Saudi Arabia has uncovered ancient human footprints that shed new light on the ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Primates have big brains, but so do elephants and whales. Elephants and whales, however, have much larger bodies that their ...

As the place of origin of Homo sapiens, the African population is much older than other populations and has ... The findings ...

A breakthrough study has identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to increased prostate cancer in African men. The ...