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 ...

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 ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you ...

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