Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

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The cave is low and dark, and it is dug into limestone on a little island in the Baltic Sea where the wind blows salt from ...

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

Research reveals that five DNA letters can switch chromatin between fluid and solid-like states, influencing gene ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...