Lower jaws (mandibles) from North Africa, illustrating variation among fossil hominins and modern humans. The fossils shown ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

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Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

Body hair has long been wrapped in myth, stereotype, and cultural judgment. Some populations are routinely described as ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

Scientists confirm that your mileage may vary in how you respond to workouts, but everyone benefits in the end.

The smell of an old book tends to surface before its title is read. It escapes as a cover is eased open or a stiff page ...

Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites have now become inadvertent safe harbours for plants and ...