Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
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To a group of hungry killer whales, a longline fishing boat looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.
Having intelligence helps humans survive.
What looks like a bright, sharp dividing line between humans and other animals is really an artefact of extinction.
Differences between male and female skulls in some species of gibbon may shed light on how our extinct ancestors lived.
Same-sex sexual behaviour presents a paradox: it’s influenced by genes, but how and why do these genes continue to be passed down the generations? One theory is they have reproductive benefits too.
The genus Paranthropus stands out in our human family tree because of their massive back teeth, but new techniques suggest we should throw out the hypothesis they mainly ate hard seeds and nuts.
Toba eruption caused temperatures to plummet by up to 10°C in some regions – but not where most humans lived.
A new analysis of a ‘lost’ skull rewrites the recent family tree of the human species, showing our closest relatives lived in China.
New DNA evidence shows humans may have been battling coronaviruses for longer than recorded history.
Each year, more and more people are looking to dating apps to find a partner. And a trove of data from these users is finally revealing what men and women really want.
A small child buried almost 80,000 years ago in a cave in Kenya shows how ancient humans treated the dead.
Even though they cover most of our features, face masks are no match for our highly-evolved capacity to recognise friends.
Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains.
If both people like and trust each other enough to kiss, the good shared feelings they get makes them more likely to stay together.
Researchers unearthed the 105,000-year-old artefacts from a spiritual site in southern Africa. Although far from the coast, the area is associated with stories of a great water snake.
We’re the only species that can throw at speeds that kill.
The ancestors of modern-day people living on Southeast Asian islands likely interbred with a prehistoric species called Denisovans - raising the possibility of fresh and intriguing fossil discoveries.
Since the 19th century, biologists have treated the larvae of lampreys as a relic of evolutionary ancestry that could potentially give clues about vertebrate origins. Now fossils overturn that view.
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Group Leader, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide
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Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Associate professor, University of Wollongong
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Fellow in the School of Biosciences, The University of Melbourne
