Research links human arrival on Cyprus to the extinction of dwarf elephants and hippos, shedding light on prehistoric human ...

Scientists discovered that these genomes—the oldest of which is roughly 10,000 years old—are remarkably similar to local San ...

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A parenting style that took its cue from those hunter-gatherers would insist that one of the best things parents can do — for ...

I have stumbled across ‘The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness’. It is a brave attempt by a coalition of 40 prominent scientists in relevant fields (evolutionary biology, neural science, ...

Childrens literacy rates are falling around the globe. In response, a number of governments, including New Zealands, are ...

Thirteen ancient genomes from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa offer new insights into the region's human history. A ...

The knee has undergone major changes to its size and shape, not only to allow early humans to walk upright, but also to ...

centre on hunting and meat-heavy diets – but we are finding that early hunter-gatherers in the Andes were mostly eating plant foods like wild tubers.” The researchers said their work shows, for the ...

Scientists have unraveled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

On Tuesday 1st October, the Algarve Archaeological Association (AAA) will be resuming their season of lectures. They will be presenting ...