While the Tarkhan Dress offers a rare example of a complete ancient garment, it’s unlikely to be the first evidence of humans ...

Global heating and its associated environmental disruptions are increasingly affecting human societies through deteriorating public health, economic instability, and social dislocation. Rising ...

Communities across the globe are facing unprecedented challenges in the Anthropocene. These challenges are particularly acute ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

In 2009, I stood in Utrecht presenting research on the bilingual brain at the International Symposium on Bilingualism. This was my great-grandfather Wilhelm's city, the place he'd left more than a ...

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