A new genomic analysis of people currently living in Egypt and Ethiopia suggests that Eurasians originated when early Africans moved north – through...
According to a new study published in the journal Child Development, infants are capable of understanding abstract relations like ‘same’ and ‘different.’
Babies...
A new study of the bones of hundreds of humans who lived during the past 33,000 years in Europe finds the rise of agriculture and a corresponding fall...
According to new research from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Nevada, exposure to galactic cosmic rays may have long-term...
Chins of anatomically modern humans don’t come from mechanical forces such as chewing, but instead result from an evolutionary adaptation involving face...
A new study published online March 26 in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the genus Homo has come in different sizes since its origins over...
People born when there was low solar activity lived longer on average than those born during times when there was more solar activity, according to a study...
According to a new study led by Patrick Roberts of the University of Oxford, UK, early human foragers relied primarily on rainforest resources from at...
In two papers published in the journal Science, an international team of anthropologists reported the discovery of a partial hominin jaw with teeth from...
A gene that is responsible for brain size in modern Homo sapiens and their ancient relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, has been identified by a team...
A group of scientists led by Dr David Hu from the Georgia Institute of Technology has discovered that humans and 21 species of mammals – from hedgehogs,...
A new study published in the journal Science Advances strengthens the view that human settlements of all times and places function in the same way by manifesting...
According to a new study led by Dr Neil Harrison of the University of Sussex, UK, humans are susceptible to the so-called temperature contagion.
Windbeeches...
Dogs can discriminate human emotional expressions, according to a new study carried out by scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna,...
According to a new study carried out by a group of scientists including Dr Peter Dodds from the University of Vermont, all human languages skew toward...
A human skull fragment recently unearthed at Manot Cave in Israel provides strong evidence that both anatomically modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals...
Climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, and altered biogeochemical cycles like phosphorus and nitrogen runoff have all passed...
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that modern human skeletons have become much lighter and more fragile...
According to a new study that analyzed different aspects of the nasal complex in Neanderthals and other later Pleistocene fossils from Europe and Africa,...
