Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried.

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

A new study says Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago. Researchers ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genomes of seven people who lived in Europe between 42,000 and 49,000 years ago, ...

Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans to a period starting about 50,500 years ago and lasting over seven millennia. At such a critical ...

Did Cameroon’s elite spread homosexuality through their connections to secret societies? Instead of disproving the conspiracy theory, the study examines why it came to be.

The findings imply that the ancestors of all currently sequenced non-African early humans lived in a common population during ...

Researchers found that people worldwide live 9.6 years longer than they are healthy — and in the U.S. the gap is more than 12 ...

The UK has a fertility gap of around 0.3 children, meaning for every three children wanted, only two are born. This is largely due to people starting families later in life, Dr Sheppard said. Her ...

The UK has a fertility gap of around 0.3 children, meaning for every three children wanted, only two are born. This is ...

Religious studies draws inspiration from multiple academic disciplines: sociology, anthropology, history, neuroscience, biology, psychology, political science..so no matter what you're interested in, ...

Man’s best friend may have emerged in the Americas about 2,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a study led ...