Earlier migrations relied on “green corridors”—temporary windows of perfect weather that allowed people to move through ...

Massive migration has been one of the central forces shaping human history. Long before modern borders and passports, people ...

Modern humans spread across different parts of the world by migrating out of Africa, but initial attempts met with disappointing failure. However, before the daring migration out of Africa into ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

This combination of 2007, 2018 and 2012 photos shows, from left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

Humans have always migrated to survive. When glaciers advanced, when rivers dried up, when cities fell, people moved. Their journeys were often painful, but necessary, whether across deserts, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age.