An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.
A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.
Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has been infecting humans for at least 2,500 years. Some people inherited the ...
Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...
Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...
An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...