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Articles on Homo sapiens
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Burials seem to have been uncommon in Africa some 80,000 years ago, although they were widespread in Eurasia.
Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains.
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.
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.
Neanderthal-human hybrid brains grown in the lab give fascinating insights into evolution.
A war with Neanderthals makes a compelling narrative but the evidence is limited is best.
Did Neanderthal military superiority delay our migration out of Africa?
A new environmental record for a prehistoric site in Kenya helped researchers figure out how external conditions influenced which of our ancient ancestors lived there, with what way of life.
These findings represent the earliest evidence for Homo sapiens on the Arabian Peninsula, and demonstrates the importance of Arabia for understanding human prehistory.
Before 200,000 years ago, close to the origin of our species, people preferred the use of broad-leaved grasses to build their beds and resting areas using ash layers underneath.
Research shows smartphone use disrupts an essential facet of human connection – eye contact.
While crocodylian fossil swim traces have been described from other continents, to the best of our knowledge the examples we describe are the first such reptilian swim traces from Africa.
Early humans in Africa may have interbred with a ghost population that likely split from the ancestors of humans and Neanderthals between 360,000 and 1.02 million years ago.
The answer lies in determining what we are and what we want to become.
The charred remains of root vegetables found at Border Cave help us understand how early humans survived and thrived.
A quirk of psychology that affects the way people learn from others may have helped unlock the complicated technologies and rituals that human culture hinges on.
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
300,000 years ago, there were lots of different species of human. Now it’s only us – and we're probably the reason why.
Language can express some of the results of our thinking, but it's not the thinking itself.
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, 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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Senior Research Associate in Translational Genomics, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Researcher, Centre for Archeological Science, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath
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Professor of Evolutionary Studies, Professor of African Prehistory, University of Bergen
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Principal Investigator, SapienCE - Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
