Bridging history and memory in the classroom. I am now old enough to be teaching the children of my first students. Among that early group were many who had arrived in the United States as “boat ...

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.

Two men were convicted of human smuggling that killed 53 people in an overheated tractor-trailer, in deadliest migrant ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Learn about the new proposal for the origins of modern humans, suggesting that our species is a genetic combination of two ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

Explore the origins of human language and its capacity dating back at least 135,000 years, reshaping how we interact.

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

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

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

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus ...

An inquiry into the deadliest Channel crossing in history has heard that ... said one of the important questions about the "terrible human tragedy" is why passengers were left in the water ...