The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

No longer can the tale of one single human migration out of Africa 60,000 years ago be considered an accurate history of humankind, said a review of scientific literature Thursday. Rather, multiple ...

Modern humans spread across different parts of the world by migrating out of Africa, but initial attempts met with disappointing failure. However, before the daring migration out of Africa into ...

"Peopling of the Americas publications." "Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this manuscript gathers the work of archaeologists from the ...

The nature of evolution -- Early hominins -- Origin of modern humans -- The exodus out of Africa -- The settlement of the Near East -- Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Hobbits -- Dispersals into India -- ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Among the many other human species that once inhabited ...

Ancient human footprints discovery could rewrite the history of human migration ...