Anthropology
The first findings of the most detailed study yet by two British archaeologists into the Nazca Lines – enigmatic drawings created between 2,100 and 1...
Skeletal remains in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, reveal that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the last ice age and...
Humans are much more inclined to cooperate than are their closest evolutionary relatives. The prevailing wisdom about why this is true has long been...
On the south coast of South Africa, scientists (including a researcher from the University of Wollongong), have found evidence for an advanced stone...
Just when did our human ancestors come down from the trees to become permanent ground-dwelling apes? Did the evolution of our upright posture and two...
Neanderthals learned how to make jewellery and sophisticated tools from the ancestors of modern humans, according to a new study.
New high precision...
A new, comprehensive review of humans' anthropological and genetic records gives the most up-to-date story of the "Out of Africa" expansion that...
Raw diet makes feeding 86bn neurons a nine-hour-a-day job, which explains evolutionary tradeoff in gorillas, scientists find.
If human beings had...
The Neanderthals are an interesting species though unfairly treated. They are frequently portrayed as knuckle-dragging idiots, serving as a metaphor...
To discover why Neandertals are most closely related to people outside Africa, Harvard and Max Planck Institute scientists have estimated the date...
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