Deploying AI to sift through massive biological datasets to identify patterns humans may not see is helping to spread medical ...

Baby Neanderthals may have been much larger and grown much more quickly than their modern Homo sapiens counterparts, ...

Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

THE history of human occupation in the Philippines is being fundamentally rewritten as researchers move beyond the idea of ...

Archaeological excavations across a string of Serbian cave sites have produced evidence that Ice Age humans occupied interior regions of the central Balkans during some of the coldest periods of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The straight-tusk elephant would have provided Neanderthal hunters with thousands of pounds of meat. In 1948, a group of amateur ...

The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned ...

In public discourse, the increasing lifespan in Western countries is often linked to longer life in good health. However, studying human aging in modern societies is complex because outcomes are ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...