Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Genes from the minority population, particularly those related to brain function, may have played a crucial role in human ...

Detectives have re-opened a cold case investigation into the rape of a student nurse more than 30 years ago. The Bedfordshire ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

This genetic reunion, occurring roughly 300,000 years ago, resulted in one group contributing 80% of modern human DNA, while ...

In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

Researchers sequenced the DNA of Cuban blue-headed quail dove, expecting clear origins. Instead, they found it has no close relatives.

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.

The new review, detailed in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, examines over a dozen genetic studies published in the past 18 years to indicate an initial branching of humans about 135,000 years ago ...