Human evolution12 Dec 2024Humans may not have survived without NeanderthalsA new DNA analysis has shown that the arrival of modern humans from Africa was far from smooth.12 Dec 20243 Jul 2024World's oldest cave art found showing humans and pigThe oldest example of cave art has been discovered on an Indonesian island and dated back 51,200 years.3 Jul 20241 May 2024Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealedScientists build a 3D model of one of our evolutionary cousins from the pieces of a shattered skull.1 May 20241 May 2024What makes a Neanderthal?Palaeoanthropologist Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of the Shanidar Z Neanderthal skull.1 May 202420 Sep 2023Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthedAncient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.20 Sep 202310 Aug 2023Big freeze drove early humans out of EuropeSevere cold a million years ago forced our ancestors from the continent, but they adapted and returned.10 Aug 202310 Feb 2023Ancient humans' stone tools found in KenyaOther branches of early humans, not just ancestors of Homo Sapiens, used them to cut and crush food.10 Feb 202329 Jun 2022Cave woman one million years older than thoughtNew research complicates our current understanding of where humans came from.29 Jun 20229 Feb 2022Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe outNew fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa.9 Feb 2022...
