But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

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New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...