Rural Hall, NC - Six years after her remains were found by a hunter, the DNA Doe Project has identified Rural Hall Jane Doe ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In a Quebec courtroom last October, Sylvie Desjardins delivered a message to her daughter's killer that was 30 years in the ...

The "Dragon Man" skull reveals groundbreaking insights into Denisovans' genetics, appearance, and impact on modern humans.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the conspicuous prosperity of deep neural networks in sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR). Nonetheless, some existing HAR frameworks based on deep ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed limestone tomb near Beni Hasan, researchers uncovered the remains of a man ...

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Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals capable of detecting and responding to physical tension in DNA. This ...