The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Earlier migrations relied on “green corridors”—temporary windows of perfect weather that allowed people to move through ...

This is something of a misnomer, for Eve was neither the first modern human nor the only woman alive 200,000 years ago. But she did live at a time when the modern human population was small—about ...

Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite ...