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

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past 18 years to indicate an initial branching of humans about 135,000 years ago ...

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

That stability, however, was disrupted when early farming groups from southwestern Europe ... from sub-Saharan populations at ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...