On either side of the Persian plateau (orange box), genetically identified as a refuge area for the concentration and demographic development of first Homo sapiens who left Africa, Obi-Rakhmat and ...

A study shows that interbreeding between the two species occurred primarily in one direction, and the origin of this bias is ...

But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, age, and damage. Some features ...

Newly published research appearing in the journal Nature (Ragsdale, A. P. et al., “A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa,” Nature [2023]) proposes a new interpretation regarding the ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

Scientists agree that humanity originated in Africa, but we still have a lot to learn about how populations moved and diverged across the continent. It's been suggested that our origins can be ...

Archaeologist Yossi Zaidner can’t articulate the excitement he felt when his team unearthed ancient human fossils at an open-air excavation site in Nesher Ramla, Israel. The region had been known for ...

Consider the phenomenon known as “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” First written in Hebrew and self-published in Israel in 2011, the book by Yuval Noah Harari found an American publisher in ...

(Reuters) - Bone fragments unearthed in a cave in central Germany show that our species ventured into Europe's cold higher latitudes more than 45,000 years ago - much earlier than previously known - ...

Translation of: Kitsur toldot ha-enoshut. 2011. "First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Mora-Bitan, Dvir."--Title page verso. "Previously published in a slightly different form in ...