A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

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

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

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

Two young Greek sisters in South Africa have achieved international acclaim, with a project to protect the Parthenon, using ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

China and Africa should deepen cooperation in a bid to accelerate modernization over the next five years, senior Chinese ...

Fencing may be one of the Olympics' oldest events, but three-time Olympian Miles Chamley-Watson says it urgently needs a ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...