Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Early humans adapted to harsh conditions over a million years ago, researchers find - Our early human ancestors had a much ...

The centennial of the discovery of brain waves in humans exposes a chilling tale involving Nazis, war between Russia and Ukraine, suicide and the vicissitudes of history ...

turns up again and again throughout the book (and human history). Chapter 6 goes on to detail how human society was inadvertently engulfed in an outbreak of a rodent pandemic: plague. Although I ...

A study from the University of Adelaide and The Australian National University (ANU) has outlined the first genomic evidence ...