When considering what kind of technology to use, we need to ask the same question as our Paleolithic ancestors probably did – ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

There are thousands of people like the Virginia Beach woman who had been struggling to get benefits and a job because she had ...

The results revealed a notable difference: Neanderthals possessed a rare variant of the Rh factor, called RhD. This particularity, still present in a tiny fraction of the current human population, was ...

Learn how with painstaking effort, archaeological artists bring back faces from the past.

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

This film examines how, since white settlement, Australians have structured, and restructured, their time. Despite some basic inequalities, Australia was a new nation trying to throw off the ...