The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to Africa as the continent from which our ancestors dispersed in the Late ...

Kayleigh reviews why the old Clovis First model no longer explains the earliest human presence in the Americas. Evidence ...

The history of human migration is full of debates, especially regarding how the first humans arrived in Australia. Recent evidence, including studies published in Archaeology in Oceania, suggests that ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. Now, a study published in Science Advances, lends credence to the ...

Homo sapiens evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago and went on to become great walkers. With our bigger brains came curiosity about the world. People living outside of Africa today can trace their ...

No longer can the tale of one single human migration out of Africa 60,000 years ago be considered an accurate history of humankind, said a review of scientific literature Thursday. Rather, multiple ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Cooperation is fundamental to human societies. Building on the hypothesis that heightened environmental variability in Africa during the Middle Stone Age influenced behavioral evolution ...

Human migration has been an essential and transformative process, driven by the need to adapt to changing environmental, social, and economic conditions. Here we explore associations between drought ...

A recent study attempted to bypass official data sources for monitoring global migration flows by analysing digital traces 21. By monitoring changes in aggregated, anonymized monthly Facebook location ...