More than 40,000 years ago—long before the first cities of Mesopotamia—early humans were carving mysterious sequences of lines, dots, crosses,…

For decades, scientists have debated why Neanderthals vanished from the Earth roughly 40,000 years ago. Climate instability, competition with early…

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary investigation led by researchers from institutions including Leiden University has uncovered compelling evidence of gender- and age-selective…