Former child soldiers in Africa often adjust well to community life if they receive group rehabilitation and community acceptance, studies indicate

Evidence suggests New World settlers slowly moved down the Pacific Coast and inhabited southern Chile by 14,000 years ago.

Chemical analyses of teeth, including fossilized ones, may provide clues that tell anthropologists the age at which a child was weaned.

Psychiatrists measuring the degree of similarity between dreams and psychotic ruminations report some strange features common to both.

An ancient human relative that lived more than 1 million years ago possessed huge jaws and teeth suited to eating hard foods but actually preferred fruits and other soft items, a new study finds.

Taxing memory training produces at least short-term increases in a critical type of intelligence.

Incan healers became highly adept at skull surgery techniques that developed over thousands of years in ancient Peru.