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

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

Ancient cultures separated by enormous distances developed detailed stories connecting humanity, cycles of destruction and ...

Since 2012, geneticist David Reich and his team of researchers have been studying DNA from living and ancient people to probe mysteries surrounding the origins of human life. But the future of their ...

You probably have a member of your family that you're not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom's best friend who you grew up calling your aunt. They're indisputably part of ...

We don’t know how language first began. The first writing didn’t occur until around 3200 B.C.E., and we know that spoken language came before that. Some experts contend that it started with hand ...