The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don’t yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. By Carl Zimmer Geography is one of the things that sets ...

The transatlantic slave trade was a multilayered, highly commercialised global enterprise that lasted from the early 1500s to ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about 18,000 ...