Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Three Mile Island, site of a past nuclear accident, is set to power the AI boom. A long-shuttered reactor is being rebuilt to ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

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