A new analysis of ancient DNA belonging to a quartet of Stone Age humans has shed new light on how agriculture may have spread from the Middle East into Europe.

The people of the Hadza group exhibited many of the “friending” habits familiar to today’s Facebook users

People and giant snakes not only target each other for food – they also compete for the same prey.

A new study has found that many of the orthodontic problems faced by people in industrialized nations are due to their soft modern diet.

Computational modeling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights into the extinction of Neanderthals.