Need for social skills helped shape modern human face
The modern human face is distinctively different to that of our near relatives and now researchers believe its evolution may have been partly driven by our need for good...
Archaeologists discover lost medieval city in Africa
Scholars on the ground have discovered what they believe to be the remains of a long lost medieval city in Ethiopia.
Woolly mammoths and Neanderthals may have shared genetic traits
Findings point to molecular resemblance in climate adaptation traits of the two species, Tel Aviv University researchers say.
Human history through tree rings: Trees in Amazonia reveal pre-colonial human disturbance
New study shows that tropical trees act as a living record of past human activity in the Amazon.
UC researchers find ancient Maya farms in Mexican wetlands
University of Cincinnati archaeologists say these farms likely produced cotton and other goods to support Yucatan trade routes.
Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration.
North Africans were among the first to colonize the Canary Islands
Study of ancient DNA shows the complexity of human migrations in North African prehistory.
First Anatolian farmers were local hunter-gatherers that adopted agriculture
The first farmers from Anatolia, who brought farming to Europe and represent the single largest ancestral component in modern-day Europeans, are directly descended from local hunter-gatherers who adopted a...
