Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

A study published in the scientific journal Nature revealed that Homo sapiens expanded their ecological niche within Africa between 70,000 and 50,000 years ago, developing the flexibility to adapt to ...

Before modern humans began their major dispersal out of Africa about 50,000 years ago, they moved to places that were significantly more ecologically diverse, which may have given them the flexibility ...

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Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil sites for understanding human origins during a presentation Tuesday in ...

KROMDRAAI, South Africa (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled the first evidence on Tuesday that early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to ...

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going ...

The original evolution of hominins (modern humans and their evolutionary ancestors since the split with other great apes) took place in Africa about 7 million years ago, based on the fossil record.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Nama girl in Northern Cape province, South Africa. She wears a white shirt and a black skirt with white spots. She sits on the ...

Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.View full profile Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a ...