For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D.

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

As one of the most recognizable figures from The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn has a remarkable family tree with many familiar ...

A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal ...

The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A third person has been arrested in connection with the death of Adan Manzano, a Telemundo reporter who was found dead in his hotel room while in Louisiana to cover the Super Bowl ...

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