Some researchers hypothesize that the incorporation of animal-based foods in early hominin diets led to increased brain size, smaller gut size, and increased stature.

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

The last places to be reached by humans were North and South America; our ancestors were in a spot in what is now New Mexico by 21,000 years ago and arrived at the tip of southern Chile by 14,000 ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Ancestors in Our Genome is the most complete discussion of our current understanding of the human genome available. Date 2015 Type Books Physical description xx, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 ...

By pushing the timeline of hominin dispersal into Eurasia back by 200,000 years, it opens the door to new questions about early migrations. What drove these ancient ancestors to leave Africa?

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. To study how ancient humans used their hands, scientists used 3D scanning to measure ...