Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

This shared Saharan human lineage took a different path from those in sub ... "Our findings suggest that while early North African populations were largely isolated, they received traces of ...

Evidence of one of the smallest — and perhaps unluckiest — early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to a paper in the Journal of Human Evolution. Researchers who found what they ...

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to ...

“Historically, the dry conditions of the Saharo-Arabian Desert have been proposed as a significant barrier to the dispersal of plants, animals, and early humans between Africa and ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

Perhaps the key new knowledge to be derived from these early bone tools is that humans even at this early stage had the intellectual and technological capacity to transfer manufacturing techniques ...