Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

On Monday, Artemis II made history. According to The Wall Street Journal, the astronauts aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft ...

We congratulate the COP30 Presidency on its initiative to draft a roadmap to halt and reverse deforestation and forest ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

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 ...

(a) Schematic representation of the NG pathway in bacteria and archaea. NG occurs on the cytoplasmatic side of the innermost cell membrane. After the glycan synthesis is completed on the ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every corner of the world, and can thrive in deserts, tropical rainforests and even ...

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes with those of living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people ...

Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67 million years ago, thanks to digital reconstruction technology. Renowned paleoanthropologist ...

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 ...