A dying language in Siberia shares its mother tongue with dozens of Native American languages, according to a new linguistic analysis.

Humans are about to become a majority urban species for the first time. Does this trend mean poverty or prosperity for the world's urban dwellers?

Humans crossed the Bering land bridge 22,000 years ago but couldn't escape ice there for thousands of years, according to a combined genetic and archaeological analysis.

A study suggests 95 percent of Native Americans can trace some DNA back 20,000 years to just six women.

Thousands of human bones have been discovered on the Pacific island, some of which are ancient and indicate inhabitants of particularly small stature, scientists have announced.

Scientists can determine where you've lived by studying your hair, which holds the unique chemical signature of the water you've been drinking, a new study has found.

The largest study yet of genetic variation between and within dozens of populations reveals surprising insights into human migrations and evolution.

European-Americans are less genetically diverse and have more potentially harmful genetic variations than African-American populations, according to a new study.

Asians en route to the Americas were thwarted by glaciers on the Beringia land bridge that used to exist near present-day Alaska, a new study claims.

Head lice picked from thousand-year-old Peruvian mummies suggest the pesky parasites accompanied modern humans on their first migration out of Africa, a new study says.

Some of Egypt's greatest treasures have ended up in foreign countries, including the Rosetta Stone, which unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Now Egypt wants the artifact back—if only for a visit.

Polynesians and Micronesians show little genetic relation to other South Pacific islanders, suggesting the two groups hail from island-hopping East Asians.

Neandertals in western Europe were ravaged by an increasingly hostile climate rather than an invasion of modern humans, according to new research.

Bamboo-dependent pandas competed with ten-foot apes—and maybe even early humans—for food and territory in ancient China, scientists familiar with new fossils say.

Monkeys can do basic addition, say researchers, who compared the animals' performance to that of humans.