Childhood is a key period for acquiring and transmitting cultural knowledge and skill. Hunter-gatherer children, such as the Congolese BaYaka, learn a…

Abstract. Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis has transformed how we study human migration, species dispersals and environmental change, but poor preservation rema

Objects found in a cave in southwestern China suggest that these enigmatic ancient humans were accomplished hunters.

The peopling of Remote Oceania involved some of humanity’s greatest expansions into the open ocean. Ancient DNA spanning the last 3,000 years from the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga reveals...

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Objectives Caregiving during early childhood emerges from a dynamic interplay between maternal and allomaternal contributions. This study aimed to challenge polarized portrayals of hunter-gatherer c...

Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.

Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia present a rich record of hominin occupations between ca. 100 and 50 thousand years ago (ka) at a critical biogeogr…

Little is known of the Homo sapiens population history in late prehistoric northeastern Africa. Using inner ear morphology from 148 individuals, this study documents 40.000 years of human evolution, i...

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

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Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

To make sense of some characteristics that species exhibit from birth, you have to turn to an old discredited theory known as Lamarckism.

The Early Pleistocene fossils of the Koobi Fora Formation, northern Kenya, record two well-documented hominin genera, Homo and Paranthropus, preser...

New bacterial regulatory interactions can evolve more readily than previously appreciated, providing new insights into the evolution of gene regulation.