The best way to get your dog to pay attention to something is to point and stare at it at the same time, scientists find in a ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

This article is about World Anthropology Day 2025 which is celebrated on third Thursday of February every year. This year it will be celebrated on 20 February 2025.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

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, ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive ...

Human diets have evolved through a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors from the Pleistocene era to the present day. This ...

“There’s been a consistent story about hunting defining us and that meat made us human,” says Amanda Henry, a paleobiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

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

A million years ago, when everything we encountered was shaped solely by forces of nature, something that began as a spark of ...