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Study Ties Human Right-Handedness to Bipedalism and Bigger Brains

Comparative models across 41 primate species suggest humans cease to be outliers once brain size together with limb proportions are included.

Neanderthals Planned Winter Shellfish Harvests 115,000 Years Ago

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UCF Excavation Reveals Ancient Indigenous Life Beneath Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Neandertal Tooth Shows Stone-Tool Drilling as Oldest Evidence of Complex Dental Care

Enamel Proteins Link East Asian Homo Erectus to Denisovans

Neanderthal Tooth Shows Earliest Known Dental Surgery, Study Finds

Ancient Tooth Proteins Hint at Links Between Chinese Homo Erectus and Denisovans

DNA Identifies Four More Sailors From Franklin’s 1845 Arctic Expedition

New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

Ancient DNA Switches Tied to Language Predate the Human–Neanderthal Split

Papyrus of Homer's Iliad Found Inside Mummy in Roman-Era Tomb at Oxyrhynchus

Ancient DNA Study Finds 479 Human Gene Variants Shaped by Selection

Ancient DNA Study Finds Recent Selection Shaped Hundreds of Human Genes

Neanderthals Hunted Turtles North of the Alps, New Study Finds

Study Recasts 12,000-Year-Old Plains Artifacts as the Earliest Dice

Study Finds 12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice That Upend the History of Chance

Telangana Heritage Team Confirms Massive Dolmen Burial Cluster in Mulugu

José María Bermúdez de Castro Wins Jovellanos Essay Prize for ‘Hijos de África’

Possible Remains of d’Artagnan Found in Dutch Church

Sealed Chamber in Luxor Yields 22 Painted Coffins Linked to Amun Temple Singers