A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...

A study of wild African herbivores offers new insight into how environmental conditions—not just diet and anatomy—can ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

Ethan Smith, therapy area director Oncology, Norstella, explores how antibody–drug conjugates are reshaping oncology, highlighting emerging challenges around treatment sequencing, safety management ...

"Researchers have argued for decades that while hominins in Africa and western Europe demonstrated significant technological ...

Researchers have found two wooden tools crafted and used by humans at a site some 430,000 years ago. One tool is made of ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...