New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

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Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances ...

Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the human cloning front.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Kissing may feel like a very human habit, but new research suggests it has much deeper roots. A team of scientists says the behavior likely began more than 20 million years ago, long before modern ...

New research suggests that the pressures of contemporary life may be pushing human biology into unfamiliar territory, activating ancient physiological systems in ways they were never meant to operate.

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