Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

Imagine a scenario where nuclear weapons knowledge appears thousands of years before modern civilization. Teaching prehistoric humans the basics of uranium enrichment, nuclear fission, and ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

In this fascinating talk, paleoanthropologist Juliet Brophy explains the shocking discovery of nearly 1,800 fossils from a ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

Dan M. Mrejeru presents an exploration of how environmental forces and cognitive shifts shaped the modern human mind ...

Chercheur en Préhistoire et conservateur principal des Monuments et Sites, Institut national des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Rabat Mohib Abderrahim is Researcher in Prehistory and ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...