Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

Using a new method of modeling genetic data, researchers identified a split in human ancestry dating back 1.5 million years. The two populations later reconnected. The mystery population ...

Besides being linked psychologically with the area of the brain required for hunting, drawing also may have had benefits like helping early humans teach others what areas of an animal are ...

an observance established by the United Nations aiming to highlight population issues, particularly how the human population relates to the environment. The UN’s Department of Economic and ...

Early humans nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago when the population of our ancestors dropped to just 1,280 individuals, research suggests. A new study has found that the human race was almost ...

tree-like models of human population history—with their implied single ancestral population origins—will mislead interpretations of genetic, archaeological and fossil data," she said.

According to a model in a study published August 31 in the journal Science, the population of human ancestors crashed between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago. They estimate that there were only ...

Hannah Osborne is Nesweek's Science Editor, based in London, UK. Hannah joined Newsweek in 2017 from IBTimes UK. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and King's College London. Languages ...