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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.
Genetic analysis has traced the evolutionary footsteps of modern humans all the way back to a prehistoric wetland that spanned parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Denisova Cave in Siberia has a rich fossil history of early humans - and deposits of droppings from hyenas, wolves and even bears, according to a new analysis of the cave's dirt floor.
As a human evolution researcher, I was very excited to work with the creator of the Assassin's Creed games.
These trackways preserve an incredibly brief moment in time. More importantly, they tell us about ancient climates, and how turtle breeding ranges have changed over the millenia
Modern science clashes with the idea that the rise of Homo Sapiens was a fluke.
Understanding our evolution can tell us a lot about the health challenges we face today.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old amber bead scam. But humans have been making fake jewels and icons for much longer than that.
Five major finds this year adds to our understanding of evolution and ancient life history.
Nimble-fingered Neanderthals went about their daily business in a similar way to modern humans.
A new discovery adds to our existing understanding of Homo sapiens in Africa.
Rainforests may have played far more of a role in shaping human evolution than previously thought.
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Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, 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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PhD candidate in archaeological 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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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
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Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, University of Adelaide
