While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

Scientists have revealed unprecedented insights into human limb development, including the many intricate processes that govern their formation. Human fingers and toes do not grow outward; instead, ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Early humans may have reached adulthood around the same age as great apes, but with a slower, human-like pattern of tooth ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

Accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) in liver fibrosis is associated with changes in protein abundance and composition depending upon etiology of the underlying liver disease. Current efforts to ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

This study provides convincing evidence for functional subpopulations of β-cells responsible for Ca2+ signal initiation and maintenance using novel three-dimensional light sheet microscopy imaging and ...

W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...