While we share bones, joints, and internal plumbing with the rest of the animal kingdom, one tiny facial feature is uniquely ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...