An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.
A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.
Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...
Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...
An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...