About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

A vital pathway for breathing and nourishment is also an object of desire—and one of the body’s most vulnerable parts.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

Research shows that communities can organize without a central authority, as noted by political economist Elinor Ostrom7 and her colleagues. They identify “design principles” of stable common-pool ...