By Ali Kucukgocmen BERGAMA, Turkey, March 13 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group ...

A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...

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The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Ancient sewing needles helped humans survive freezing climates by enabling tailored clothing, while also serving many other uses.