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Canaanites were flourishingly pagan before Joshua came in.
A must-read book spanning time and science.
Aging and obesity alone cannot explain it.
Not bad for such a small thing.
Dibs on the last slice.
Unlikely discoveries hide in unlikely places.
This can be a game changer.
New insight into the evolution of Neanderthals but also into a common ancestral lineage.
Still think Neanderthals were brutes?
This discovery is poised to rewrite our species' history.
An unprecedented research which will pave the way for more ancient mummy genome sequencing.
Emphasis on might.
A primitive Homo species with some surprising skills.
The most comprehensive bone analysis of its kind shows Homo floresiensis didn't share important features with Homo erectus.
The ancient stories held some truth after all.
The mouse in the house has been with us for 15,000 years.
Scientists performed a remarkable facial reconstruction of a 15th century man who lived his last days at the mercy of charity.
Neanderthals took the herbal equipment of aspirin and penicillin.
Feasting on seaweeds is good for your brain -- in fact, it may have been crucial.
Cranial fragments discovered in China can't be pinned down to any known human species. Some speculate it might be Denisovan.
*nods geologically*
To this day, menopause remains a puzzling concept.
A new study seems to suggest that an old but controversial hypothesis may be true. Humans might have first arrived in North America 24,000 years ago.
Our early ancestors may have comprised social groups similar to those seen in gorillas today.
One foot in front of the other.
Best enjoyed with a stone fork from a bark plate.
Digs at one of the most amazing anthropological sites in the world come across something big.
Spectacular images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon have emerged, but conservationists and indigenous populations fear that the villagers are in grave danger.
Up to now, we didn't even think they knew which were theirs.
Right in the middle of nowhere, ancient humans ventured to start a new life.
'This will look fabulous in the cave's wall.'
The monkeys cut the stones for a whole different reason, though. Ok, maybe they're not that smart.
A prehistoric walk in the park
Modern archaeology is a lot like crime scene investigation.
This isn't the final word, though.
How did people get to America, and when? A new, 'pioneering and neat' study may have some answers.
In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and the amateur antiquarian Charles Dawson made a stunning announcement, which turned out to be a hoax.
Big-eyed Neanderthals were successful due to this feature, not in spite of.
Short, round skulls were the norm then.
Not a modern-day disease after all.
Looks like happy hour isn't just a human thing.
Researchers discovered a gruesome find.
A new study from Yale University mapped urban centers from 3700 B.C. to 2000 A.D. It's an amazing ride!
University of Rochester researchers developed a new evolutionary model that suggests human intelligence developed to meet the demands of our infants, in a self-reinforcing cycle: bigger brains led to shorter pregnancies, requiring parents to have even bigger brains.
Deep inside the Bruniquel Cave in France, a set of man-made structures 336 meters from the entrance lie as evidence to the former populations which inhabited the cave. These are among the oldest structures created by humans, and they have quite a story to tell about some of our ancestors. Until now, the earliest dated structures go back to […]
People of European descent carry as much as 4 percent Neanderthal DNA, but the Y chromosome passed down from father to sons is entirely missing in the modern population. Scientists now think they know why.
Last week, a team published results showing that some areas in South-East Asia carry significant Denisovan DNA and now, another team has published a map of that DNA spread.
The relationship between ancient humans and Neanderthals was proven to be much more intricate than previously believed.
Researchers working in Spain have made a surprising finding: Neanderthals emerged much earlier than previously believed, perhaps as far as half a million years ago.
Imagine spending half of your day chewing food like our cousins, the chimpanzees. You'd never get anything done. Strikingly, human teeth have evolved to become smaller over the past million years or so. This begs the question: how did we become such efficient eaters? There are two answers. For one, human ancestors started eating higher quality food (meat) and, secondly, they employed food processing. By applying tool use to anything outside slicing and cutting meat, these early ancestors may have opened the flood gates of innovation.
