What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
Four decades after the discovery of Lucy, her remains are quite possibly the most famous discovery in paleoanthropology and one …
Thanks to twin studies, schizophrenia is one of the few mental illnesses that we know have a genetic inheritance pattern. …
In two papers published in the South African Journal of Science, researchers say they’ve found the oldest definitive evidence of malignancy in a hominid. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known hominin tumor was found in the rib of a Neanderthal dating back to around 120,000 years ago.
Neanderthal remains from Troisième Caverne in Goyet, Belgium have cut marks that imply they were butchered and processed for consumption …
Modern humans carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA but a new paper reveals that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is distinct …
Discovered in 2003 in Liang Bua cave, Homo floresiensis stood about three and a half feet tall and weighed around …
Published in Nature, last week, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology carried out extremely …
Late last month, an international team of paleontologists led by Emma Mbua of Mount Kenya University and Masato Nakatsukasa of …
Previously it had been thought that the modern humans and Neanderthals first admixed about 60,000 years ago, but traces of …