Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, ...

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

Buried deep in a South African cave, 2.2 million-year-old teeth may hold the genetic signature of a mysterious human relative ...

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Cannabis has been a globally important crop for millennia. While best known today as marijuana for its psychoactive ...

DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of female herders from a time when ... Back then, it was a savannah that early human populations settled in to take advantage of the favorable ...

Since 2009, human remains of the Durotriges tribe have ... Both were related to mitochondrial DNA – small loops of DNA that we inherit only through the maternal line, since they are passed ...

and their collaborators have identified a set of DNA repair support proteins that may become a target for the treatment of female reproductive cancers. Their research was recently published in the ...

However, it’s hard to reconcile this idea with the finding that there is no trace of Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (which is limited to the female line) in modern humans. Or perhaps the ...