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That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient ...

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Scientists have unraveled how an early form of Bronze Age plague that differed from the Black Death spread across Europe.

A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

New DNA evidence reveals that the cats of ancient China were not what they seemed.