Genetic analysis of two skull fragments dating back almost 40,000 years shows that our species colonised Europe from the east and interbred with our Neanderthal cousins.
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What could the extinction of Neanderthals tell us about our own species? An archaeologist explains in The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The answers lie in early human evolution.
The findings reveal a close association between climatic conditions and early human migrations out of Africa.
Trackway findings support the notion of southern Africa being one region where human cognitive and practical ability developed a very long time ago.
Some footprints last thousands or even millions of years, preserved in sand that turned to rock.
New evidence from contested Laos cave site shows humans reached Southeast Asia at least 68,000 years ago.
Meet the archeologist who is overhauling our understanding of early human history.
Homo naledi had a brain less than half the size of our own. Yet the new research claims it had cognitive abilities far beyond what we might expect.
This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
Scientists had figured a fossil found in Spain more than a century ago was from a Neandertal. But a new analysis suggests it could be from a lost lineage of our species, Homo sapiens.
This whirlwind tour of social history describes how infectious diseases have shaped humanity at every stage. It suggests reducing inequality will give us our best chance of surviving future plagues.
In 2022 we detailed the discovery of 1,500 stone points in France’s Madrin cave. Experiments now show that they could were used as arrowheads, pushing back evidence of archery in Eurasia by 40,000 years.
We can trace our human evolutionary lineage back to fish.
Using a new equation based on today’s primates, scientists can take a few molar teeth from an extinct fossil species and reconstruct exactly how fast their offspring grew during gestation.
Hate winter? The answer may lie in our evolutionary history.
The first speech sounds were uttered about 70,000 years ago and not hundreds of thousands of years ago as is sometimes claimed.
Humanity carries traces of other populations in our DNA – and a new study shows how one of these ancestors has influenced the immune systems of modern Papuans.
New study shows Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had a taste for sharp and bitter food.
Neanderthals were wiped out by chance changes in the environment. The rise of Homo sapiens wasn’t inevitable.
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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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 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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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Senior Research Associate in Translational Genomics, University of Oxford
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Archéologue, penseur et chercheur au CNRS, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Researcher, Centre for Archeological Science, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
