Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

While giving many benefits, aspects of modern society can also be harmful to our physical, mental, and cultural health. We can overcome many of these detriments if we better understand and express our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evidence from Sulawesi shows early human relatives crossed deep ocean waters more than a million years ago—centuries before modern ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the Neanderthals and Denisovans that our ancestors met ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...