When the team looked at ancient human DNA, they found that hunter-gatherers already had four to eight copies of AMY1, on average, even though our species had not yet developed agriculture.

When the human race — Homo sapiens sapiens — migrated out of ... The first wave of extinctions targeted large vertebrates hunted by hunter-gatherers. The second, larger wave began 10,000 years ago as ...

"Rather than thinking about the difference between agricultural societies and hunter-gatherer societies as a ... the ...

An international study has found how the microbes in our mouths are connected to the lifestyles we lead and the food we eat.

lifestyle factors influence the composition of the oral microbiome - the beneficial bacteria and other microbes living in the ...

The skeleton of a 17,000 years old child helped scientists discover more about early European migrations and the history of ...

With the time traveling ability of archaeogenetic studies, it has become possible to shed light onto the dynamic past of ...

Archaeological evidence suggests ancient human societies in South America ... DNA analysis shows the animal dined with prehistoric hunter gatherers and was part of the inner circle of the camp.

According to Tashi Dorji, the group’s chairperson, the king of Bhutan encouraged the Oleps to settle and benefit from ...

The Blätterhöhle cave in Hagen, Germany, has become a significant archaeological site in Westphalia due to recent remarkable ...

According to a new study, the composition of beneficial microorganisms within the mouth differs over a range of subsistence strategies -- from nomadic hunter gatherers to farmers to industrialized ...