Ancient Origins
Preserved human brains: 4,400 date back nearly 12,000 years
A recent study has demonstrated that human brains can survive the test of time far better than previously believed ...
Infections and intelligence: A virus could have been evolutionary spark that led to rapid evolution of human brains
A new study has unraveled a mystery that is key to understanding the course of human and animal evolution ...
Culture, art and war: 15 biggest discoveries in 2023 that changed our understanding of human evolution
2023 could likely be viewed as a coming-of-age story for our Neanderthal cousins, as they further shed their brutish image ...
Video: Humans and other mammals have a lot less hair today than tens of thousands of years ago. Here’s why
For decades scientists have been puzzled and intrigued by a most fascinating question, which is: why do human beings have ...
Ancient DNA: Here’s how a thousand-year-old skeleton was diagnosed with a genetic disorder
The oldest clinical case of Klinefelter Syndrome has been detected in a 1,000-year-old Portuguese skeleton. Klinefelter Syndrome is a super ...
Exploring the history and mystery of Einstein’s stolen brain
When you think of intelligent people, Albert Einstein may be the first name to come to mind. Given his high ...
Can we blame Neanderthal-human sex for a million COVID deaths?
About 60,000 years ago, a human had a sexual encounter with a Neanderthal. Now, a genetic scientist has claimed that ...
Homo floresiensis mystery: Could this ancient hominid species still be alive?
Anthropologist Gregory Forth spent many years living among an ethnic group known as the Lio, an agricultural people who live ...
Why the theory of human evolution needs a tweak, once again
Recent archaeological digs in Africa found evidence of Middle Stone Age tools dating to just 11,000 years ago, about 20,000 ...
No ancient ‘Garden of Eden’? Humans likely evolved all over Africa
The evolution and spread of Homo sapiens is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries in all of science. Until recently, it was ...
Archaeologists revive ancient North American crops that may have fed thousands of people
The scientific cultivation of lost ancient seed crops has yielded much higher than expected growth rates, challenging assumptions about maize ...
Studying human evolution faces major challenge: Our ancestors lived in ‘ecosystems unlike any found today’
To understand the environmental pressures that shaped human evolution, scientists must first piece together the details of the ancient plant and animal ...
Neanderthal children footprints: In French quarry, largest group of hominin footprints ever found
They walked and perhaps played along the beach in a prehistoric world; we know this as archaeologists have discovered hundreds ...
Studs: Most men trace their genetics back to a few early human prolific ‘elite males’
A new genetic study of male ancestry shows there were periods in human prehistory when just a few elite men ...
DNA of unknown extinct human ancestor species found
Traces of long-lost human cousins may be hiding in modern people’s DNA, a new computer analysis suggests. People from Melanesia, ...
