Modern dogs offer a living record of change shaped by proximity to people. Over time, research shows that brains respond to ...

These fossils may be the best candidate for 'African populations lying near the root of this shared ancestry.' ...

Morocco has previously yielded some of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils. Remains dating to about 315,000 years ago ...

The industrial and commercial expansion of bottled water hinges on advancements in purification technology. As the pivotal ...

Newly sequenced Native genomes showcase a wealth of surprises, from previously unknown populations to unique high-altitude adaptations.

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways associated with differences in brain size and cognitive function A new study sug ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

The study authors conclude that these Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers were making their poison from the gifbol root bulb ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Decades of research with humans and other species indicate that males are more aggressive than females. But within the family ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...