Our hunter-gatherer ancestors certainly weren’t guaranteed to live to a ripe old age. Their time was regularly cut short by various viruses, bacteria, and unfriendly critters that we barely think ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genes passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe more than 10,000 years ago may be related to exceptional ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Researchers are still ...

Short video in which the authors of the Dyble et al. paper explain the findings of their research. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 15, 2015 issue of Science, published by ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

Remember the young missionary who, in 2018, tried to convert an indigenous tribe on a remote island in the Indian Ocean only to be killed by them? Twenty years before that ill-fated adventure garnered ...