Maternal DNA from Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave show Neanderthals moved across wide areas of Europe.

Columbia University archaeologist Kristina Douglass is using ancient trash to uncover how past societies adapted to environmental shifts, offering insights for modern climate resilience. Her work on ...

Researchers at LMU have developed a human cell model that replicates key mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases—with ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Who knew our bodies could be so weird?

Heartworm’s global spread likely stems from ancient canid hosts, not recent human activity. Findings may reshape treatment ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over thousands of years in response to how people live and what they eat, according ...

FRIEDRICH ENGELS’S essay on the origins of our species is today recognised as a foundational text, not just of Marxism, but of today’s physical and social anthropology.Like most of Engels’s ...

A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...