For months, anti-migrant rhetoric had been building across South Africa. Then it reached Kaunga Nyirenda’s doorstep.

Long before wooden beds or woven mattresses, humans were already paying close attention to where they slept. New research from Border Cave, on the border of South Africa and Eswatini, is shedding light on a surprisingly familiar part of daily life that has rarely survived in the archaeological record.

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that grasslands and savannahs were the ecological "cradle ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration. By Carl Zimmer Geography is one of the things that sets apart modern humans. Our closest living relatives ...

On June 12, the Central African Republic accepted 18 men and women of other nationalities deported from the United States, despite its own fragility as a country recovering from decades of conflict and suffering a protracted humanitarian crisis.

Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia around 50,000 years ago. However, fossil evidence shows that there were numerous failed dispersals before this time that left no detectable traces ...

The continent of Africa is recognized as the place where humankind originated and evolved over millennia. From famous ancestors like Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis remains unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974, to the Turkana Boy, a Homo erectus fossil found ...