Western European hunter-gatherer DNA (WHG) has a link to Italians who live to be at least a hundred. While Italians have more ancient DNA than just WHG, it is the only component of their DNA that has ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live and when groups stayed apart. By tracing ancient mosquito habitats, ...

Three major archaeological discoveries—from submerged Homo erectus sites in Indonesia, to a shell-built island in Florida, to a vast trove of Egyptian ostraca—are offering unprecedented insights into ...

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too. “This paper ...