Anthropology
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...
A fragment of a child's skull discovered at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania shows the oldest known evidence of anemia caused by a nutritional deficiency,...
A study at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) reveals that humans from the...
There are precious few Neandertal skeletons available to science. One of the more complete was discovered in 1957 in France, roughly 900 yards away...
An ancient skull recovered from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest modern human fossil found in Southeast Asia,...
Cambridge scientists claim DNA overlap between Neanderthals and modern humans is a remnant of a common ancestor.
When scientists discovered a few...
One of the most interesting things about Homo sapiens is that it is the only living member of the genus Homo. In other words, our species doesn’t...
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