Analysis of skeletal remains found in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, has revealed that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the...
A study led by Prof Kristen Hawkes at the University of Utah provides new mathematical support for the ‘grandmother hypothesis,’ a theory that humans...
A study led by Dr Christopher Karpowitz of Brigham Young University shows that having a seat at the table is very different than having a voice, for women.
Scientists...
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, an international collaboration of more than 440 scientists in 32 labs in United States, the United Kingdom,...
According to an international team of anthropologists, an ancient skull collected from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest...
A new study led by Zurich University researchers sheds light on the origin of a puzzling skull bone, known as the interparietal, in humans and all other...
Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common...
An international team of scientists has reconstructed dietary preferences of three groups of early hominins from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Reconstructions...
A team of German scientists has analyzed the structure of shark teeth and human teeth. The results of their research are surprising: although the surface...
A team of Spanish paleoanthropologists has reconstructed the diet of Australopithecus anamensis, a hominid that lived in the east of the African continent...
Paleoanthropologists at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution in Johannesburg, South Africa, have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant...
Forensic anthropologists at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have found that heads of Americans are getting larger.
Uncle Sam, a national personification...
Oxford and Tübingen scientists have identified what they believe are the world’s oldest known musical instruments.
Mammoth-, left, and bird-bone flutes...
Australian researchers have suggested that finding rocky, Earth-like exoplanets that can sustain life will be crucial for us as a species.
An artist’s...
An international team of scientists has found the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors at the site of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern...
An international team of Ethiopian and American scientists conducting paleontological field research in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia...
A team of researchers from the University of Warwick and Indiana University has found that humans move between patches in their memory using the same strategy...
