A 1.9 million-year-old discovery in Jordan reveals new insights into early human migration.

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

Dental calculus is the richest known source of ancient DNA in the archaeological record. That stubborn mineralized plaque, once treated as little more than an unpleasant byproduct of life, has become ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

The evidence shows that the ‘Ubeidiya site is at least one million nine hundred thousand years old. This finding represents a ...

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from the fermented sugars.

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

The article ‘ A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date ’ by Amélie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford was originally published on The Conversation and has been ...