Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Worldwide, today, women live, on average, 5.4 years longer than men.” That striking fact, highlighted in recent research, isn ...

We have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." That’s a quote from Edward O. Wilson, the renowned father of sociobiology. Since he delivered these wise words over a ...

A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for his groundbreaking research into the evolutionary history of humankind. Svante Pääbo, of the Max Planck Institute ...

STOCKHOLM — Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for unlocking secrets hidden in Neanderthal DNA that helped us understand what makes humans unique compared with our ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, working with 15 collaborators around the world, has conducted the most ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the genomes of five Neandertals that lived between 39,000 and 47,000 years ago. These late ...

Artefacts made of stone, bones or teeth provide important insights into the subsistence strategies of early humans, their behavior and culture. However, until now it has been difficult to attribute ...

The struggle for power between women and men — the so-called battle of the sexes — is as complex as it is longstanding. But can theory initially developed to explain animal behavior also help us ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that ...