Genetic evidence suggests modern humans left Africa between 80,000 to 60,000 years ago. Some scientists argue that environmental changes were behind this migration.

'Migration out of Africa was possible several times during the last 200,000 years, during periods when the climate was wetter, and has led to the spread of our ancestors as far as Europe.

Humans' Successful Migration Out of Africa 50,000 Years Ago Was Down to One Key Factor, Reveals New Study. Modern humans spread across different parts of the world by migrating out of Africa, but ...

Separate teams of researchers from Stanford and the University of Michigan have found convincing evidence locked inside the human genome that much of the world today ...

Instead, the new research found humans in that location, known as Shinfa-Metema 1, adapted to the arid conditions brought on by the volcanic eruption in a way that may have facilitated humanity ...

South Sudan has accepted eight third-country deportees from the U.S. and Rwanda says it’s in talk with the administration of ...

Africa’s Great Migration sees millions of wildebeest and zebra thunder across the sun-bleached savannah, drawn by instinct to cross crocodile-infested rivers where predators lie in wait. But beyond ...

Our species emerged in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with a migration out of the continent 60,000 to 70,000 years ago heralding the start of the global spread of Homo sapiens.

With few options, thousands of people from the Sahel — many of them under 25 — leave Niger each month in an effort to reach Europe, often to travel to North Africa with the aim of crossing the ...