The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

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Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

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For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

The origin of modern humans may require some revisiting by experts, as they have gathered some crucial insights from the investigation of a one-million-year-old skull from China, suggesting previous ...

At the heart of scientific questions about the origins of humanity lie questions of human nature. Are Homo sapiens intrinsically lovers or fighters, predators or prey, lucky survivors or inevitable ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the Neanderthals and Denisovans that our ancestors met ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death -- the most devastating pandemic in human history -- to the shores of mediaeval ...

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New research offers insight into the evolutionary history of amylase genes, which help us eat starchy food. Long before humans ate dinner rolls or french fries, our ancient ancestors carried genes ...