As Chinese emigrants assimilate and adapt to new homes, their children may slowly forget about the meaning of remembering remote ancestors. Even in China, the accepted way is cremation rather than ...

Precise places of birth of remote ancestors (grandparents and great grandparents) were established in each family; a family history for phenotype and age of onset of symptoms was recorded.

Researchers propose that some remote ancestors of Native Americans may have been the first humans to forge the bond with wolves that led to domestication. By James Gorman Twenty-three thousand ...

The hominids that made and used these tools were not thinking about culture. Norman says the tools gave our remote ancestors distinct advantages over their non-primate competitors in the nasty, ...

Although the consilience of these classic arguments provides strong evidence for the common ancestry of higher taxa such as the chordates or metazoans, none expressly address questions such as ...

A recent find of hunter-gatherer war dead on the shores of Lake Turkana, Kenya, reignited an old controversy (1). Did our pre-agricultural ancestors fight wars, or were they peace lovers?

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them. By Jennifer Szalai When you ...

Ancestor worshipping rituals in some of the ... the Guangxi Daily reported. Many tombs are in remote areas and are difficult to access, but the locations were carefully chosen based on feng ...