The former head of the population genetics research group at Oxford retraces the genetic history of humankind, arguing that it is possible to trace the origins of human kind ...

Breakthroughs in population genetics allow the early history of the human race to be accurately narrated for the first time. Spencer Wells, along with photographer Mark Read ...

150,000 years ago, a human being, identical to us in all important respects, walked the soil of Africa. Every modern human being is descended from this one woman. How did she ...