Neanderthals fill a prominent yet ambiguous position in studies of human origins. In the nineteenth century their discovery and less than flattering description was responsible for the popular view of cave men. The original description emphasized the...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the search for man's evolutionary past lead to dramatic new conclusions about life on Earth and the biological history of mankind. The search for our fossil ancestors, once initiated, began...

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Calling the Virginia Military Institute an anachronism doesn't quite capture the flavor of what is going on at the all-male institution in beautiful downtown Lexington, Va. It's more like a medieval time warp, in which a brotherhood is forged through sadomasochistic rituals in a...

Tracking Neanderthal hunters Preliminary excavations conducted in 1988 and 1989 inside a cave on Italy's west coast, as well as evidence from four nearby cave sites, suggest that sometime between 55,000 and 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals in the region shifted from periodic...

In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.Recent times brought new technologies and new ways of looking, using genomics and DNA research to show our connections to...

Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a...