Ruth Schuster
Ancient humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Why did we settle down and start farming?
After millions of years of our predecessors and us evolving as hunter-gatherers, humans abruptly stopped roaming, settled down and started ...
Humans are mutts: New discoveries upend long-held views of evolution
Among human species, analysis of alternative types has been confined to Neanderthals and Denisovans, so far. And we have discovered ...
‘They are perfect’: Why cats have remained virtually unchanged through centuries of domestication
The biggest-ever genetic analysis of cats is in, and it’s official: they are cats. After two centuries of breeding, cats ...
How genetics made dogs man’s best friend
You love your dog. Your dog loves you. Your love is the upshot of thousands of years – perhaps tens ...
‘Our species began as a sort of arboreal rat when dinosaurs ruled the planet’: Early hominids spread around the world via a once-green Arabia
Our species began as a sort of arboreal rat when dinosaurs ruled the planet, and arguments abound over where the ...
Mediterranean peoples share a common recent ancestry—except mainland Greeks
Genetic analysis proves that following thousands of years of conquests and migrations, peoples living around the Mediterranean today share common ...
Saving extinct and endangered species will benefit humans, too
The Sixth Extinction is upon us, and this time the depopulation of the planet is Man’s fault. But the upside ...