Analysis of the hair used in a knotted device reveals the owner’s simple diet. That suggests commoners, not just the elite, kept records in Inca society.
Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.
Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.
Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.
Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.
A study in Uganda shows how often chimps use medicinal plants and other forms of health care — and what that says about the roots of human medicine.
The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.
An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.
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An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.
