A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 7,000-year-old skeletons in the Sahara Desert with DNA revealing a mysterious lineage unconnected to any modern populations, offering new insights into ancient human ...