Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

The Dr. Gwendolyn A. Newkirk Human Sciences building is one of dozens on the University of Nebraska’s east campus, but the ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

Spanning an area of 50 hectares in the Great Rift Valley, between the extinct volcanoes of Mount Olorgesailie and Mount ...

THE Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) welcomes the renewal of the International Decade for People of African Descent by the ...

We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

Despite (sometimes valid) stereotypes of Africa as a continent where women are often politically and socially marginalized, ...