The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations.

A recent groundbreaking study has radically altered our understanding of human evolution. Homo sapiens, traditionally thought to have descended from a single lineage, is now believed to be the product ...

Researchers have unraveled the mystery of the 'Burtele Foot,' linking 3.4-million-year-old fossils to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a human ancestor from Ethiopia. This discovery reveals coexistence ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia.

WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a new accounting of the human genome that improves on its predecessor by including a rich diversity of people to better reflect the ...

Except for the fence, one can imagine the English countryside looks much as it must have when Germanic tribes settled here in the 5th to 7th century A.D. (William Dotinga/Courthouse News) (CN) --- The ...

All of us have ancestors, or we wouldn't be alive today. All of us have a heritage, or we wouldn't be human. The difference between these two statements about ancestry and heritage is fundamental and ...