Anthropology at Chicago’ pairs faculty conversations with archival research for College students as department approaches its ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Researchers from several European institutions, led by scientists from the University of Barcelona and the University of ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

Every human culture dreams, but not every culture ignores them. For most of history, dreams were treated as messages, ...

Clinical NHS practices to dispose of pregnancy remains following an early-stage miscarriage (first trimester) appear at odds ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's bloodstream and tissues. They can settle in maternal organs such as the ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...

After more than a century of battling heart disease as the number one killer of Americans, you would think we’d know all about it. For a good part of the 20th century, cardiologists thought they had ...