The research looked at the oldest DNA ever recovered and concluded that we and our are very genetically similar to our ...

The first theory, known as the 'Out of Africa' model, is that Homo sapiens developed first in Africa and then spread around the world between 100 and 200,000 years ago, superseding all other ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

Africans. Scientists from UC Berkeley and MPI-EVA analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes ...

A new study of archeological sites in India’s Saurashtra peninsula, published in the journal Quaternary Environments and ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ago. At some stage the hominids split ...

The new work also revealed the earliest known example of Homo erectus, a species thought to be a direct ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens ... to migrate out of Africa into the rest of ...

INDEX "So far the evidence that we have in the world points to Africa as the Cradle of Humankind." George Abungu, Director-General of the National Museums of Kenya. Most of the av ...

The remains of at least 16 individuals, including children, have been discovered in a cave in eastern China, and are believed ...