University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as ...

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree." However, a “trellis” model might be more appropriate.

Today, we sit alone on the only remaining branch of the human family tree. But we are only one character in the story of human evolution. To truly understand who we are, we must look at how we got ...

Researchers have long thought the Levant was a key gateway for our species, Homo sapiens, and other branches of the human family tree that migrated out of Africa. Artifacts found at Nesher Ramla ...

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“You can harness the hard work of so many people around the globe just documenting their own family history, and learn something ... across 11 generations stretching back five centuries. The tree ...

Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago. The story of human evolution is not one of neat, linear progression with a concrete beginning and end. Instead, it is a tale of a family tree whose complex ...