The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

At some point before our ancestors left Africa, they interbred with this unknown species, contributing to a long and complicated series of affairs between separate hominin lineages. The rest of this ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase of the Old Stone Age, between 50,000 and 10,000 BP (Before Present). During ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people ...

A new analysis of the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile redates it as much younger than thought, reopening the "Clovis ...