Click here to view Volume I of this Research TopicThe domestication of animals and plants during the early Holocene marked a pivotal transition that led to ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a prehistoric cave dating back up to 400,000 years, revealing evidence of complex ...

Why do Black people often have curly or coiled hair? A scientific study explains how genetics, hair follicle shape and ...

Deep beneath the landscape of Israel, researchers have uncovered what feels almost like a time capsule from Earth’s distant ...

A rare prehistoric cave, estimated to be around 300,000 years old, is a “time capsule,” sealed for hundreds of thousands of years. A research team from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Second, genes that are helpful in youth and damaging in old age are also kept around, because evolution strongly favors the ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species ...

In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires ...

The 2-Million-Year Jump: The primary transition to modern human body proportions was a sudden evolutionary leap 2 to 2.5 million years ago, driven by Homo erectus/ergaster and Homo rudolfensis, rather ...