In recent years, DNA evidence has added important new tools for scientists studying the human past, and a collection of reviews published in a recent issue of Current Biology offers a timely update…

An analysis of the skeletal remains found in Carthaginian burial urns could finally lay to rest the millennia-old conjecture that the ancient empire of Carthage regularly sacrificed its youngest…

About a third way up the mountain, on Mt. Sinai, Moses was given six visions in the year 1598 BC, about two months after the Exodus from Egypt. Each vision was twelve hours long, revealing events on…

Based on new radiocarbon dating evidence for the Late Aurignacian of Portugal, an archaeological culture unquestionably associated with modern humans,  an international team of researchers…

Conservation efforts aimed at protecting Gorillas And Elephants in African parks and reserves  are well intentioned but are often based on incorrect assumptions about the local culture, say…

Researchers from the University of Bristol have analyzed the teeth of a 30,000-year-old child originally found in the Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal in 1998. Classified as a modern human with…

December 8 SPIEGEL ONLINE has two articles posted on skulls. The former covers a stone age mystery in a town called Herxheim in Germany. We read a graphic description of…

What do you think is the number one reason men gave for cheating on their long term partner? a) Primarily Sexual Dissatisfactionb) Other/no dissatisfactionc) Equal Emotional and Sexual…

What is the number one reason men say they cheat on their long term partner? Is it a) Primarysexual dissatisfactionb) Other/nodissatisfactionc) Equalemotional and sexual Dissatisfactiond)…

Hormones called androgens are considered important in the development of masculine characteristics like aggression and strength and some believe that prenatal androgens affect finger length during…