DNA from 4,500-year-old Ethiopian skull reveals a large migratory wave of West Eurasians into the Horn of Africa around 3,000 years ago had a genetic...
The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, L is for...
New research shows that males with higher ‘reproductive potential’ are better distance runners. This may have been used by females as a reliable...
New research harnessing fragmentary fossils suggests our genus has come in different shapes and sizes since its origins over two million years ago...
Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in...
Latest analysis of prehistoric bones show there is no anatomical reason why a person born today could not develop the skeletal strength of a...
A genome taken from a 36,000 year old skeleton reveals an early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and allows scientists to better...
Recent finds at Willendorf in Austria reveal that modern humans were living in cool steppe-like conditions some 43,500 years ago – and that their...
