A major genetic study suggests that all living humans may trace their ancestry back to three African hunter-gatherer ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Professor Mashudu Tshifularo led the world’s first successful 3D-printed middle-ear transplant in Pretoria, restoring hearing ...

First the science. As part of the original study, a forensic examination of the Beachy Head Lady’s skull found traits ...

A new Moffitt Cancer Center study suggests a widely used genomic test can more accurately identify which men with early ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Beachy Head Woman, an ancient individual once called the 'first black Briton' was actually a white Sussex woman, according to the Natural ...

Physical analysis of the remains suggested that the owner of the bones was approximately 18 to 25 years old at the time of ...