Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had something…
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The theory that the Americas were populated by humans crossing from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge was first proposed as far back as 1590, and has been generally accepted since the 1930s. But genetic…
During the warm periods between ice ages stretching from 500,000 to 200,000 years ago, the southern parts of Britain were occupied by a species of ancient human, Homo heidelbergensis. These hunter-gatherers…
Ever since the discovery of the well preserved, nearly complete, 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton in a pit dug in a cave in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, southwest France, it has been long debated as to…
It should not be a surprise that East Africa was a hotbed of evolution, because over the last five million years everything about the landscape has changed. The extraordinary forces of plate tectonics…
Responding to a crisis often brings out the best in people. Certainly it has in the past, when sudden changes in climate during the Middle Stone Age sparked off surges of cultural evolution and innovation…
A fragment of sharpened bone found embedded in a mastodon rib from an archaeological site in Washington State proves hunter…
Could we have found the first artist’s studio in human history? We may well have. We all recognise the material signs of wealth. Fast cars, large yachts and sparkling bling all tell us who has more. Crowns…
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professor, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Research Fellow, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Head of School of Earth & Ocean Sciences and Research Professor, Cardiff University
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Senior Research Associate in Translational Genomics, University of Oxford
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Osteoarchaeology, Uppsala University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Primate and Human Evolution, Georgia State University
