An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

An international research team has unveiled a significant discovery in human paleontology: an exceptionally well-preserved ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...