Twins have been rare in human history and for that reason can seem special. Many cultures associate twins with health and ...

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(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

A researcher who works with hunter-gatherer tribes said their routines can teach us how to live longer. Preindustrial societies today and in human history have relied on close social bonds to stay ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

From a distance, it might have looked like a small child was wending her way through the waving grass along a vast lake. But a closer look would have revealed a strange, in-between creature — a ...

Once upon a time, in a cave just north of Durango, Mexico, someone took a poop. In fact, it was quite a few someones, and these events were spread out over quite a bit of time—from about 725 A.D. to ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...