Dealing with food shortages and infections over thousands of years, not widespread milk consumption, may be how an ability to digest dairy evolved.
Studies of posttraumatic growth are fundamentally flawed and can contribute to toxic cultural narratives, researchers say.
Chickens, popular on today’s menus, got their start in Southeast Asia surprisingly recently, probably as exotic or revered animals, researchers say.
A molar adds to suspicions that mysterious hominids called Denisovans inhabited Southeast Asia's tropical forests.
The mummified remains contained a substance that may reduce anxiety and is found in ayahuasca, a psychedelic ceremonial liquid still drunk today.
In studying and reviving long-ago scents, archaeologists aim to understand how people experienced, and interpreted, their worlds through smell.
Climate changes drove where Homo species lived over the last 2 million years, with a disputed ancestor giving rise to H. sapiens, a new study claims.
Bone regrowth suggests the man, who lived in what’s now Alabama, survived a procedure to treat brain swelling by scraping a hole out of his forehead.
The new findings hint at how modern language may have taken root in sparse communities of ancient apes and humans.
The bones of more than 100 cadavers are shedding light on a more precise and reliable way to determine when someone died.