Ice Age hunters’ leftovers may have fueled dog domestication
Sometime between around 29,000 and 14,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers navigating northern Eurasia’s frigid landscapes turned...
Ardi and her discoverers shake up hominid evolution in ‘Fossil Men’
Fossil MenKermit PattisonWilliam Morrow, $32.50 She is the most controversial, convention-defying, weirdest-looking fossil hominid ever...
Bolivia’s Tsimane people’s average body temperature fell over time
Indigenous Bolivian Amazon dwellers are helping to bolster recent findings that normal body temperature, around...
Female big-game hunters may have been common in ancient Americas
A woman buried with spearpoints and other hunting tools roughly 9,000 years ago in Peru’s...
Mount Vesuvius’ eruption turned human nerve cell tendrils to glass
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a cloud of scorching ash from Mount Vesuvius buried a young...
First Denisovan DNA outside Siberia was found on the Tibetan Plateau
Mysterious, now-extinct members of the human lineage called Denisovans lived at the roof of the...
Mummified llamas yield new insights into Inca ritual sacrifices
Mummified llamas stashed at a more than 500-year-old site on Peru’s southern coast offer the...
Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point
A type of bone tool generally thought to have been invented by Stone Age humans...
Environmental change may have helped make early humans more adaptable
An unforgiving environmental twist deserves at least some credit for the behavioral flexibility that has...
Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents
Neandertal babies had chests shaped like short, deep barrels and spines that curved inward more...