Modern humans evolved in Africa, and we now know that human groups from all over the continent contributed to that process. A group of scientists says that means it is time to stop arguing about where in Africa humans 'really' came from

A chemical residue study of incense burners from ancient burials at high elevations in western China has revealed psychoactive cannabinoids

A new article suggests wetter climates may have allowed Homo sapiens to expand across the deserts of Central Asia 50-30,000 years ago

Our species' ability to occupy diverse and "extreme" settings around the world stands in stark contrast to the ecological adaptations of other hominin taxa

A pair of 3,800-year-old skeletons buried together in Russia test positive for a strain of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis