Skulls of early humans carry telltale signs of inbreeding, study suggests
Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well...
View ArticleCat domestication traced to Chinese farmers 5,300 years ago
Five-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme, the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of...
View ArticleAncient metal workers were not slaves but highly regarded craftsmen
In 1934, American archaeologist Nelson Glueck named one of the largest known copper production sites of the Levant “Slaves’ Hill.” This hilltop station, located deep in Israel’s Arava Valley, seemed...
View ArticleFrom Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos: The Human Journey
A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us. Leonard Mlodinow takes...
View Article2,500-year-old footprints of a family strolling through a field
The recent discovery of dozens of remarkably well-preserved footprints in the southern Arizona desert provides new insights into how Native people practiced a complex system of irrigation agriculture...
View ArticleNeanderthals and modern H. sapiens crossbred over 100,000 years ago
A multidisciplinary team which included participants from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has discovered that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens crossbred over 100,000 years ago. This...
View ArticleTextbook story of how humans populated America is ‘biologically unviable,’...
IMAGE: Map outlining the opening of the human migration routes in North America revealed by the results presented in this study. view more Credit: Mikkel Winther Pedersen The established theory about...
View ArticleStorr Lochs Monster Fossil Unveiled in Edinburgh
The fossilised skeleton of a 170 million-year-old Jurassic predator discovered on the Isle of Skye has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Named the Storr Lochs Monster, the fossil of the sea-living reptile...
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