Nine copies of a starch-digesting gene sat in the genome of a woman buried in a rock shelter in the mountains of Kanto sometime around 8,300 years ago. She ...

I have a bone to pick with anyone who persists in assuming that the life of hunting and gathering is the “evolutionary environment of adaptation” ...

The narrative of human technological advancement has long positioned metallurgy as a hallmark of settled agricultural societies. However, recent findings ...

THIS is what transformed humanity between 300,000 and 100,000 years ago – the development of a cultural system of environmental management that made the ...