A review of ancient DNA evidence suggests that people most likely arrived in the Americas between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago ...

Gut bacteria may have accompanied humans for thousands of years, but many species are missing from industrialized populations ...

New migration estimate: Genetic evidence points to Indigenous ancestors arriving no earlier than 21,000 years ago, near the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. Debate continues: Conflicting ...

Bacteria living in people’s guts may preserve traces of journeys their ancestors made tens of thousands of years ago.

A decades-old Arizona mystery has been solved. Remains found in 1982 have been identified as missing Buckeye teen Mitchell ...

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...

In the 1960s, a miner working at a mineral extraction site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, struck something far more valuable than any mineral in the area: a skull with distinctly humanlike features. After ...

Deep genomic sequencing of the Tsimane and Hadza peoples reveals that hundreds of gut bacterial species co-migrated with ...

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

A research review favors migration between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago for ancestors of most living Indigenous Americans.

The analysis points to a timestamp of no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but the data leaves a lot more to be desired.

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