Excited scientists have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Waymo's self-driving taxis have been in the spotlight for both negative and positive reasons. This week, the automated ...

Excited scientists announced Wednesday they have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 ...

A pilot study from Bournemouth University found six regulatory DNA variants – some inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Scientists sequenced genomes from 28 individuals dated between 225 and 10,275 years old. These remains came from regions ...

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

A study of Neanderthal bones has unearthed evidence of 'light, selective' cannibalism targeting women and girls around 40,000 ...