Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Australia’s First Nations population, the Aboriginal Australians, say that they have always been in Australia. The evidence suggests that they are right. Indigenous Australians arrived on the ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

“These ancestors lived up to and over 1 million years ago—which is much older than current estimates for the age of Homo ... the migration out of Africa. Despite the genealogical map's ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, did not evolve in Lahore ... Even if you live today in the Rift Valley, in Africa, mother continent to us all, on the site of the earliest discovered remains of our ...

and Arabia is rooted in the migration patterns that shaped human history. Most scientists believe that modern humans, Homo sapiens, first evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago. From there, they ...

If you go on safari to Africa—to South Africa ... are especially vulnerable to us homo sapiens because many of them—about 14,000, or 70 percent of the total population--live outside protected ...

Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for ...