Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

The 2026 Ulysses and Marguerite Memorial Schwartz Lecture drew an overflowing crowd of students on April 21 to hear from ...

Ongoing anti-migrant violence continues against Africans in South Africa, with human rights groups urging for action and a swift response to mitigate the alarming crisis.

Experts have long believed that human settlements spread throughout the world after ancient species migrated from Africa. This migration supposedly happened around 50,000 years ago, according to MyNBC ...

The crust beneath part of Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than geologists thought, new measurements have found. That has ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

A new study looks at thousands of years worth of data and finds that malaria hot spots have played a critical role in shaping where humans settled and either thrived or failed to thrive.

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Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...