The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Climate change is reshaping migration patterns worldwide, with disasters now being the leading cause of internal displacements. In 2022, 32.6 million new internal human displacements were caused by ...

A team of genome researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York and Qatar have discovered that indigenous Arabs can directly trace their ancestors to migrants from Africa. “One of the exciting ...

Scientists have applied a dynamic model of the landscape to patterns of human migration into Sahul, the combined continent of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. New research led by the University of ...

An unlikely source has provided the answer to a long-standing question over how the geographically isolated Pacific Islands became populated: bacteria. By analyzing both genetic variations in human ...

Climate change is reshaping migration patterns worldwide, with disasters now being the leading cause of internal displacements. In 2022, 32.6 million new internal human displacements were caused by ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of 115,000-year-old human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically at Alathar Lake. This finding challenges previous assumptions that early ...

“Where did we come from, and how did we get to where we live today?” So read the flyer distributed by The Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics promoting yesterday’s lecture by ...

Decades of data following the migratory patterns of endangered caribou show that migration areas have decreased significantly. Researchers are concerned that resource extraction is disturbing caribou ...