Recent evidence has emerged that challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of the first Americans. Instead of walking ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. “Our superpower is that we are ecosystem generalists,” said ...

New genetic research has shed fresh light on one of the most mysterious chapters in human evolution—the relationship between ...

Reference map showing natural features cited, cities, and known routes connecting the Nile River, Foul Bay, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea throughout history. LAWRENCE — A University of ...

In their study, they conclude that the lost landscape is thought to have been a main route for early humans and one of the missing ... offered an essential land bridge for the migration of human ...

New research suggests the origins of modern humans may have begun by the sea in southern Africa 70,000 years ago.

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.