The first known fossils of human ancestors, those of Neanderthals, were unearthed in the early 19th century, and decades passed before naturalists understood what they were looking at.

Many of us residing in the U.S. of European descent are the children of immigrants. Some are more recent than others, but immigrants nonetheless. My own grandfather arrived at Ellis Island just ...

Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. To study how ancient humans used their hands, scientists used 3D scanning to measure ...

Pierre Zalloua, a Lebanese-born population geneticist with a flair for (gently) stirring the pot, takes the reader on an eye-opening tour of the global genetic soup.

American Ancestors Takes Over Harvard Descendant Research After Layoffs Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people ...

Fern Cloud has been a hide artist for three decades, and teaches classes throughout the state in an effort to keep her ancestors traditional methods alive.

The Future Ancestors put on their Change Makers event at the Speed Art Museum. There were poetry readings, community conversations, and opportunities for people to create their own art. Future ...

Human ancestors made the oldest known bone tools 1.5 million years ago A set of tools found in Tanzania were fashioned from the bones of hippos and elephants ...

More information: Elnaz Ghotbi et al, Transcription factor KROX20 marks epithelial stem cell ancestors for hair follicle formation, Journal of Clinical Investigation (2024).

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago has found they were mostly or totally vegetarian. The consumption of animal foods such as meat is considered to ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

Since the nineteenth century, Euro-American anthropologists have argued that the ancestors of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy must have originally lived near the Great Lakes.