Writer Andrew Curry takes us inside a new science—paleogenetics—and explains what it’s revealing about the migrations that have shaped the populations of modern Europe. Salopek journeys by ...

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.

This study narrowed it to around 47,000 years ago, providing a clearer picture of when modern humans began their migration into Eurasia. Benjamin Peter, a researcher involved in the study ...

Modern genetic research has shown ... After that, multiple migrations out of Africa occurred, but the human race was never completely replaced by a single tribe. Moreover, once the three major ...

Archeological research into hominid artifacts Paleolithic hominids and their development of tools The evolution of hominids and modern humans Human migration out of ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.