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

But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using animal bones – one million years earlier than researchers previously thought. The finding ...

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

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 ...

The caves closed nearly three years ago due to flooding and reopened this week with a new experience bringing tourists closer ...