The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...

Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...

A glass of milk can still mark a line through humanity. For most adults, drinking it brings discomfort because the body ...

A new study shows the virus could have doubled the frequency of genetic variants in a South African province if effective ...

When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Archaeology 'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of Rome Human Evolution 'We can no longer ignore diseases in the deep ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

One hundred years ago, a small town in eastern Tennessee captured the attention of the entire country. A biology teacher in Dayton was accused of teaching human evolution to his students — which was ...

Traumatic experiences can cause memory problems, and estrogen may be a key factor that shapes the brain's resilience against ...