Gut bacteria may have accompanied humans for thousands of years, but many species are missing from industrialized populations ...
Deep genomic sequencing of the Tsimane and Hadza peoples reveals that hundreds of gut bacterial species co-migrated with ...
A decades-old Arizona mystery has been solved. Remains found in 1982 have been identified as missing Buckeye teen Mitchell ...
The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of ...
The Indigenous African Hadza and South American Tsimane share gut microorganisms that shed light on human dispersals and ...
A skull fragment from a South African cave has been tentatively identified as an adult Homo erectus that lived about 2 million years ago, roughly 200,000 years before previously discovered adult ...
La Trobe archaeologists have described 18 new hominin fossils including a second Homo erectus skull fragment confirming the species’ first appearance was in southern Africa 2.0 million years ago – 200 ...
In the 1960s, a miner working at a mineral extraction site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, struck something far more valuable than any mineral in the area: a skull with distinctly humanlike features. After ...
On the right is a depiction of an early Homo human ancestor characterized by relatively greater bone strength of the femur in the thigh compared to the humerus in the arm. To the left is a depiction ...
Neanderthals and Denisovans are among our closest extinct human relatives, but there’s still much we don’t know about this ancient relative of ours—but new research may help us take the next step.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ghost archaic ancestry reveals DNA from two unknown human lineages still carried by people around the world. (CREDIT: Shutterstock ...
The human genome holds genetic traces of at least two ancient relatives whose identities remain unknown. Their DNA survives alongside genes inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans, revealing a ...