Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...

Our environment is changing rapidly, largely as a result of human activities, leading to a significant decline in ...