Human Origins
The Paleo Diet May Need a Rewrite, Ancient Humans Feasted on a Wide Variety of Plants
Archaeologists in Israel have counted 55 species of plant foods a an early hominid site on Lake Hula
New Dictionary Explains 45,000 English and Irish Surnames
Using sources dating back to the 11th century, researchers have put together the massive Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Why Humans Don't Have More Neanderthal DNA
The mutations humans acquired from Neanderthals are slowly being purged from the genome overtime
Aboriginal Australians Lived In Country's Interior 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought
Excavations at a rock shelter in the Flinders Range shows people were there 49,000 years ago, hunting megafauna and developing new tools
Two-Million-Year-Old Jaw Has a Lot to Say About the Origins of Human Handedness
Scientists have discovered one of the earliest examples of handedness in an ancient human
Neanderthals May Have Given Us Both Good Genes and Nasty Diseases
DNA analysis shows ancient hominds transmitted genes that may have helped us adapt quicker to Europe and Asia. They also gave us HPV.
Campsite Places Humans in Argentina 14,000 Years Ago
Excavations at the site Arroyo Seco 2 include stone tools and evidence that humans were hunting giant sloths, giant armadillos and extinct horse species
Hear the Recreated Voice of Ötzi the Iceman
Using CT scans of the Neolithic man's vocal tract, Italian researchers have approximated the way he pronounced his vowels
Welcome the First "Three-Parent" Baby Into the World
Fertility doctor John Zhang and his team transplanted DNA from one egg to another to prevent a fatal mitochondrial disease
New DNA Analysis Shows Aboriginal Australians Are the World's Oldest Society
The group was the first to split after a single wave of migration out of Africa took place between 51,000 and 72,000 years ago, study shows
World's Oldest Fish Hooks Discovered in Okinawa
The 23,000-year-old barbs are made from snail shell. The discovery shows that early people had the resources to survive on the isolated island
Archaeologists Find Ancient Pot With Traces of 3,000-Year-Old Burnt Cheese
This ancient mishap gives researchers a peek into Bronze Age life
Watch OSIRIS-REx Head to the Cosmos to Grab a Scoop of Asteroid Dust
Today, NASA will launch the spacecraft which will travel to the nearby asteroid Bennu
Did Anthropologists Just Solve the 3-Million-Year-Old Mystery of Lucy’s Death?
Researchers think they've reconstructed the fatal plunge and last terrifying seconds of the hominin's life
DNA Analysis Reveals What Ötzi the Iceman Wore to His Grave
He rocked surprisingly complex fashion for the Copper Age
First Humans Entered the Americas Along the Coast, Not Through the Ice
Evidence mounts against the traditional story of early human migration through an ice corridor
Ancient Hominids Used These 250,000-Year-Old Tools for Butchery
Traces of blood on the prehistoric tools, suggest our ancestors had a much more varied diet than once thought
One of the Earliest Images of Skiing Was Destroyed by Youths Trying to “Improve It”
The petroglyph was made 5,000 years ago
Behold LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor of Life on Earth
New discoveries suggest life likely descends from the inhospitable environment of deep sea vents
The “Hobbit” Lineage May Be Much Older Than Previously Thought
A new find hints that the short-statured hominins could have been living in Indonesia over a half a million years earlier than previous estimates
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