Where was Eden? Probably in a sun-baked salt plain in Botswana

Mitochondrial Eve, an early human ancestor, probably dwelt on the shore of a huge, now-vanished lake

Likely human homeland identified

Genetic analysis pinpoints ancient African wetlands.

Have scientists settled the debate of where we came from?

The earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans likely emerged in southern Africa, new Australian-led research suggests.

Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It's complicated

A study claims to have pinpointed the Okavango Delta in Botswana as the origin of humanity, but geneticists and anthropologists say the evidence is deeply flawed

Origin of modern humans 'traced to Botswana'

Scientists say the possible homeland of all humans alive today is an area south of the Zambesi River.

Humans’ maternal ancestors may have arisen 200,000 years ago in southern Africa

New DNA findings on humankind’s maternal roots don’t offer a complete picture of how and when Homo sapiens emerged.

The homeland of modern humans

A study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African 'homeland' and thrived there for 70 thousand years.

No, a genetic study didn’t pinpoint the ancestral homeland of all humans

The study published earlier this week ignores most of the archaeological record.

Scientists Say New Research Tracing the Origin of Modern Humans to Botswana Is Deeply Flawed

A new paper claiming that modern humans originated in northern Botswana some 200,000 years ago is being criticized by experts, who say the researchers relied on unproven and outdated techniques ...

How This Decade of Archaeology Changed What We Know About Human Origins

Unlike humans living today, our distant ancestors exerted a very small footprint on the planet, leaving barely anything behind to chronicle their time on Earth. With the discovery of each new ...

Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, scientists find

Scientists believe they have traced humans' ancestral home to a wetland that existed in modern-day Botswana.

Humankind's ancestral 'homeland' pinpointed in Botswana

A large ancient wetlands region spanning northern Botswana - once teeming with life but now dominated by desert and salt flats - may represent the ancestral homeland of all of the 7.7 billion ...

The First Modern Humans Came from What Is Now Botswana: Study

Mitochondrial DNA and other factors place our ancestors in southern Africa 200,000 years ago.

Study suggests ALL modern humans evolved from ancestors in Botswana

Scientists from Sydney University believe all modern humans came from a community which lived in the prehistoric Makgadikgadi-Okavango wetlands to the south of the Zambezi River.

Our earliest ancestors originated in southern Africa

A new study traced back our ancestral homeland to the south of the Zambezi river, just north of Botswana.

Scientists Think They've Found 'Mitochondrial Eve's' First Homeland

Using genetic data from 1,200 modern indigenous Africans, researchers believe they’ve pinpointed the location of the first permanent human settlement, which thrived 200,000 years ago.

Tracing Human Origins

When and where did fully modern humans first emerge? That is an interesting question that paleontologists have been chasing for decades. Now a new genetic study claims to have pinpointed that ...

Paleontologists trace orgins of modern humans to Botswana

The earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens, emerged in southern Africa, according to a new study published this week in the journal Nature.

LLNL leads multi-institutional team in modeling protein interactions tied to cancer

Computational scientists, biophysicists and statisticians from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are leading a massive multi-institutional ...

'DNA Time Capsule' Reveals Birthplace of Modern Humans

A landmark study led by Sydney researchers pinpoints the birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa and suggests how climate change may have driven the first migrations.

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