The bone, along with a 12,000-year-old leg bone discovered at a nearby site, are some of the earliest evidence that ancient dogs and wolves formed close relationships with people in the Americas.
The jumpy parasites have followed our ancestors around for at least 25 million years, adapting along with us through major upheavals.
The rate of prenatal growth directly relates to how big an adult brain grows. How and when Homo sapiens‘ high prenatal growth rate evolved has been a mystery, until now.
Given our limited adaptation to the cold, why is it that our species has come to dominate not only our warm ancestral lands but every part of the globe?
Our elimination of other species probably wasn’t a planned, coordinated effort of the sort practised by civilisations, but a war of attrition. The end result, however, was just as final.
Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.
Cellular clocks are almost everywhere. Clues to how they work are coming from the places that they’re not.
AMC's "Humans" demonstrates exactly how complicated it is to outsource something as personal as domestic work and care.
AMC’s new show goes beyond the obvious questions about what happens when robots can think like people.
An evolutionary arms race keeps humans and bacteria right where they started.
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