The exact origin of human life is a topic that has not one but many well-known theories by experts. While some scientists ...

Scientists have decoded the world’s oldest human DNA sequence, beating the previous record by almost 300,000 years, and at the same time confusing what we know of our early relatives. Published in ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named William ...

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. Researchers found Yersinia pestis, ...

A research team reconstructed the genome of an extinct horse species through an open-air extraction at the archaeological ...