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Our closest living relatives on the tree of life may also exhibit complex social cues that are paramount to joint commitment.
This type of finding is making researchers think that Neanderthals and Denisovans weren't all that different from us.
Did we get the Easter Island collapse all wrong?
Some scientists believe we've found our long-lost sister lineage. But not everyone is entirely convinced.
Childfree couples represent an increasingly important type of family in the United States.
The strict separation between the islanders’ families may have ensured their cultural survival.
Sugar-rich food, not just meat, fueled the big-brained lineages.
It's a dark episode in human history.
The study helps combat romantic ideas about this ancient population.
I mean, what else could it be?
A former Soviet bioware lab is investigating ancient permafrost viruses.
Neanderthals were every bit as smart and creative as humans.
The teeth had been discovered over a century ago, but researchers are now seeing them in a new light.
This is the first time the full genome of an ancient human has been extracted from a source other than human bones.
It's a story of obesity, hunger, and glaciers.
Nowadays, we aren't nearly as sturdy, the researchers report.
Neanderthal thumbs were better adapted to holding tools with handles, a new study found.
The 1,900-year-old mummy may have been royalty.
Big game hunting may have been gender neutral.
Tree ring-like growth lines in baby Neanderthal teeth suggest they were first weaned at around 6 months of age.
The Gravettian art culture famous for stone age Venus statues was more widespread than previously thought.
It's one of the craziest explorer stories you'll ever read.
These early hunter-gatherers also walked alongside ancient elephants and camels.
In one case, a man was buried alongside a thigh bone that was carved into a flute.
A nice way to see the world when travel isn't an option.
If there's one thing humans have always liked, it's comfort.
The Neolithic people in the Arabian peninsula independently arrived at the same technology.
It's only the second hand axe made out of bone that scientists have ever come across.
These were the hi-tech gadgets of the Upper Paleolithic
It's helping us piece together the human family tree.
It's not just Homo sapiens -- Neanderthals also had a deep relationship with the sea.
It's a new challenge, and an old dilemma that we must face: are we willing and capable of protecting society's most vulnerable?
Hazda tribespeople spend just as much time in sedentary behavior like people from the US. They prefer not to sit though, and this has positive effects for their health.
Long before you were using Facebook and Snapchat, our ancestors had developed a different kind of social network.
About 700,000 years ago, the common ancestors of Denisovans and Neanderthals interbred with an archaic human population.
A famous Palaeolithic site in Iraq has more secrets to shed about Neanderthal daily life -- as well as their after life.
A new lineage of humans has been identified in the DNA of certain African populations. But no one knows what they looked like or what happened to them.
Ancient Italians were importing copper from Tuscany, a new study shows.
DNA analysis shows a 'profoundly different' landscape than we thought.
Spanish sign languages seem to be among the oldest in Europe.
A new study found that early human ancestors had teeth that could penetrate the hard shells of nuts and seeds without suffering damage.
The dog-sized ape had a more flexible lower back that allowed it to walk more like humans do.
A new investigation suggests that Homo erectus survived on Indonedian island long enough to overlap with our own species, Homo sapiens.
People love to communicate -- there are over 7,000 languages in use today.
Researchers show how cultural changes in Africa over the past 10,000 years can be tracked using the size of eggshell beads.
Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world. Its terrain alternates between mountains and rolling plateaus, with tundra and green plains in between. Many Mongolians also maintain a pastoral lifestyle, for which the mountainous zones provide crucial support. For the reindeer-herding Tsaatan people, “eternal ice” (the so-called munkh mus) offers much-needed support to […]
Researchers have used ground-penetrating radar to find overlapping tracks from 12,000 years ago.
The fresco is in fantastic shape.
Ancient humans knew how to handle and make fire earlier than assumed.
High up in the mountains of China.
