Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic breakthroughs are finally pulling back the curtain on migrations and “ghost ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar feline companions first stepped out of Africa and into homes, ships and cities ...