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Ancient humans were practicing brain surgery on cows 5,400 years ago

Ancient brain surgery -- now here's something I'd never have to say.

How expressive eyebrows helped shape human evolution

Well this study is bound to raise some eyebrows.

Why did Neanderthals have such big noses? It helped them adapt to the cold, study says

All the better to breathe with.

Mesolithic people were able to withstand dramatic climate shocks, new study shows

These ancient populations were impressively resilient.

Modern humans and Denisovans interbred at least twice in history

Our ancestors interbred both with Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Evidence of early innovation pushes back human evolutionary timeline

Our ancestors made symbolic use of color pigments and employed advanced tools earlier than previously thought.

Neanderthals were artists just like humans, and even understood symbolism

Neanderthals were thinkers and artists, just like humans, tantalizing new research suggests.

We owe the shape of our jaws, at least in part, to our ancestors' love of cheese

Cheese -- it literally made your bones what they are.

Oldest human fossil outside Africa suggests our species left the continent 100,000 years earlier than thought

A 200,000-year-old human jawbone found in a cave in Israel is rewriting history.

Anthropologists recreate the face of a 9,000-year-old teenager

She looked nothing like you'd expect.

Infant skeleton sheds new light on early Native American populations

Genome sequencing of infant found in Alaska reveals new Native American Population

Ancient mummy found to have bone cancer

Cancer was already affecting humans 2,000 years ago.

The story of human dispersal out of Africa started 60,000 years earlier than previously thought

The history of mankind's humble beginnings has been rewritten.

Prehistoric women had strong, bulky arms -- more powerful than today's athletes

Think you're buffed today? Well, I've got some news for you...

8,000 years old rock art in Saudi Arabia documents the earliest known use of dog leashes

Woof.

Neandethals in Spain outlived their kin by thousands of years thanks to a big river and an Italian volcano

The research suggests that human interbreeding was more of a 'step-by-step' event.

Humans have been drinking wine for at least 8,000 years

You have the ancient Georgians to thank for your favourite wine.

Bonobos perform random acts of kindness to strangers

Humans aren't the only ones.

Early human ancestors may not have passed down knowledge but simply crafted tools on instinct

Luckily we're really big on it now.

Neanderthals were doomed to fail, new study suggests

Humans weren't necessarily better than the Neanderthals, they just moved around more.

New simulation can predict where refugees will flee after a conflict

It has the potential to help aid efforts and save lives.

Mysterious 9.7-million-year-old fossilized teeth likely belong to unknown ancient European primate

Some speculate the teeth may belong to a hominid species but evidence backs no such sensationalist claim.

Newfoundland settled multiple times by unrelated groups of people in the last 7,700 years, study reveals

A very cosmopolitan island.

Easter Island natives may not have sailed all the way to South America after all

It doesn't seem that Native Americans mixed with Polynesians before European contact.

Virtual reconstruction shows what the first modern humans to reach Europe looked like

A lot has changed in 30.000 years.

Early modern humans formed complex social networks to avoid inbreeding as early as 34,000 years ago

The findings partially explain why humans were more successful than Neanderthals.

Some 2% of our DNA is Neanderthal. Here's what it does

In most ways, Neanderthals were just like us.

Modern humans emerged up to 350,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought

That moment when you realize you've grown really old.

Macaques may have just entered the Stone Age

Crack open a nutty one.

Neanderthals were distilling tar 200,000 years ago well before humans

Neanderthals were far more complex than meets the eye.

Human bones in underwater Mexico cave dated to 13,000 years ago -- thanks to a pelvis-stalagmite

Thieves plundered the cave, but they left researchers a bone.

Pagan ritual hall from 3,200 years ago found in Israel

Canaanites were flourishingly pagan before Joshua came in.

Book Review: 'Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve'

A must-read book spanning time and science.

Knee arthritis has doubled since 1950, and we don't really know why

Aging and obesity alone cannot explain it.

Tiny, fossilized ape skull brings us closer to the common human-ape ancestor, fuels debate over humanity's place of birth

Not bad for such a small thing.

Modern humans might've killed off the Neanderthals by eating all the mammoth

Dibs on the last slice.

A lost race of hominids left their legacy in the saliva of Sub-Saharan populations

Unlikely discoveries hide in unlikely places.

No bones needed -- researchers use DNA in soil to tell if humans were around

This can be a game changer.

Early Neanderthal DNA suggests a modern human-related dispersal from Africa as early as 220,000 years ago

New insight into the evolution of Neanderthals but also into a common ancestral lineage.

Neanderthals might have practiced prehistoric dentistry 130,000 years ago

Still think Neanderthals were brutes?

The plot thickens: earliest Homo Sapiens fossils discovered in Morocco suggest humans evolved more than 300,000 year ago

This discovery is poised to rewrite our species' history.

First DNA analysis of mummies shows ancient and modern Egyptians don't really have much in common anymore

An unprecedented research which will pave the way for more ancient mummy genome sequencing.

The first hominids might have evolved in Europe, fossil jaw suggests

Emphasis on might.

Scientists report new trove of information on Homo naledi, the newly discovered humanoid species

A primitive Homo species with some surprising skills.

'Hobbits' didn't evolve from a direct modern human ancestor. They likely originate from Africa instead

The most comprehensive bone analysis of its kind shows Homo floresiensis didn't share important features with Homo erectus.

Found: oldest settlement in North America, confirms local tribe history

The ancient stories held some truth after all.

Wherever humans go, mice go too -- since forever

The mouse in the house has been with us for 15,000 years.

The face of a Medieval 'poor man' living in England 700 years ago

Scientists performed a remarkable facial reconstruction of a 15th century man who lived his last days at the mercy of charity.

Dental plaque shows what Neanderthals took as drugs

Neanderthals took the herbal equipment of aspirin and penicillin.

Seaweed might have helped determine who we are today

Feasting on seaweeds is good for your brain -- in fact, it may have been crucial.
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