Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

History is contested. There will always be a variety of views about what should be included and excluded from America’s story ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Greece reveals the first known Homo sapiens outside Africa, reshaping our understanding of ...

Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its ...