They remain one of the most elusive groups of humans to have walked on earth. Evidence from the DNA traces left by Denisovans shows they…
View More Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’Tag: Anthropology
‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into space
It was meant to be a grand gesture that would raise the profile of South African science – by allowing fossil bones found at the…
View More ‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into spaceRevealed: modern humans needed three tries – and 12,000 years – to colonise Europe
It took three separate waves of modern humans to colonise Europe between 54,000 and 42,000 years ago. That is the key conclusion of scientists who…
View More Revealed: modern humans needed three tries – and 12,000 years – to colonise EuropeNew analysis of ancient human protein could unlock secrets of evolution
Tiny traces of protein lingering in the bones and teeth of ancient humans could soon transform scientists’ efforts to unravel the secrets of the evolution…
View More New analysis of ancient human protein could unlock secrets of evolutionNeanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other’s tools
Modern humans lived alongside Neanderthals for more than 1,000 years in Europe, according to research that suggests the two species may have imitated each other’s…
View More Neanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other’s toolsForensic anthropologist Sue Black: ‘The body is really just layers upon layers of memory’
From a solitary set of finger bones to a fragment of skull in a washing machine, the cases Dame Sue Black has helped solve may…
View More Forensic anthropologist Sue Black: ‘The body is really just layers upon layers of memory’1.8m-year-old tooth of early human found on dig in Georgia
Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8m-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human that they say cements the region as the home of…
View More 1.8m-year-old tooth of early human found on dig in GeorgiaEarly human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the…
View More Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history
Last year a book called The Dawn of Everything announced that most of what we think we know about human history is wrong. Its co-authors,…
View More ‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human historyChild’s 130,000-year-old tooth could offer clues to extinct human relative
A child’s tooth at least 130,000 years old found in a Laos cave could help scientists uncover more information about an early human cousin, according…
View More Child’s 130,000-year-old tooth could offer clues to extinct human relative