Recent research has unveiled an unexpected link between the ancient human exposure to lead and the evolutionary development ...

Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

DNA samples from individuals across 2,000 years sheds light on the Etruscan origins, revealing Roman-era changes and genetic ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are ...