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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have examined how social models ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, it eats away at the landscape, slowly turning rock into mud.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have studied the influence of group identity ...

From 2014-2016, a severe El Niño event triggered a drought across Central and South America, leading to unprecedented ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, but the entire lineage was wiped out about 25 million years ago.

Colombo explains that dominance, survival instincts, and competition are hardwired into humans and still shape global politics, economic inequality, and social structures. Without conscious efforts to ...

The research conducted by Washington State University found that men and women with greater upper body strength tend to have more sexual partners than other people during their lifetime.

The evolutionary roots of human dominance and aggression remain central to social and political behaviour, and without conscious intervention these primal survival drives will continue to fuel ...

A new publication co-authored by John Ziker (Department of Anthropology) and Karl Mertens (Ph.D. candidate in ecology, ...

Kissing is a big part of human culture. According to ancient cuneiform tablets found in Iraq, humans have been smooching ...