When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research finds that ancient Europeans tended to have dark skin, dark hair and dark eyes up ...

The textbook assumption is that when the first modern humans arrived in Europe, around 45,000 years ago, they quickly evolved pale skin to adapt to the region’s dimmer sunlight relative to Africa. The ...

The majority of Europeans living 5,000 years ago, including those who built Stonehenge, may have had dark skin, a new study suggests. It was already believed that Britain’s early inhabitants, such as ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...