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Common Culture Of Cave Dwellers
Baby fossils reveal link between human and Neanderthal development
Naming Of Mollusks Evolves At Snail’s Pace
Deep revelation: Landmark dig at Sulawesi cave could reveal overlap between extinct humans and us  
Early hominins from Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of Homo sapiens
DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves
Were Neanderthals capable of making art?
A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
Neanderthals likely ate fermented meat with a side of maggots
Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how
Why evolution can explain human testicle size but not our unique chins
Before Dispersing out of Africa, Humans Learned to Thrive in Diverse Habitats
If people stopped having babies, how long would it be before humans were all gone?
A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names
Did humans evolve to prefer religion? Research shows many atheists intuitively favour faith
Different Ways Of ‘getting Grip’
Was it a stone tool or just a rock? An archaeologist explains how scientists can tell the difference
Why Humans Have Smaller Face Than Neanderthals
Fossil face discovery highlights challenges faced by Europe’s earliest settlers
Study maps missing piece of brain evolution  
No News Is Not Good News
Ancient humans were so good at surviving the last ice age they didn’t have to migrate like other species – new study
Bigger animals don’t always have the biggest brains relative to body size – new research
Network For Researching Anthropocene
Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome – except the Y chromosome. What happened?
Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient viral DNA in our genome – new research
How Neanderthal language differed from modern human – they probably didn’t use metaphors
Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting
Revised dating of the Liujiang skeleton renews understanding of human occupation of China
Why did modern humans replace the Neanderthals? The key might lie in our social structures
Why Are We Obsessed With Human Origins?
Persian plateau unveiled as crucial hub for early human migration out of Africa
Did Neanderthals Use Glue? Researchers Find Evidence that Sticks
Overcoming our psychological barriers to embracing AI
New path for early human migrations through a once-lush Arabia contradicts a single ‘out of Africa’ origin
Balzan Prizes 2023 for Max Planck researchers
All animal intelligence was shaped by just 5 leaps in brain evolution
Major new research claims smaller-brained _Homo naledi_ made rock art and buried the dead. But the evidence is lacking
Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answer
Calls for policy reform based on scientific evidence – not ideology
How milk tamed the Third Pole: research reveals a 3,500-year history of dairy consumption on the Tibetan Plateau
Waxing and waning of environment influences hominin dispersals across ancient Iran
We can still see these 5 traces of ancestor species in all human bodies today
First-ever genetic analysis of a Neanderthal family paints a fascinating picture of a close-knit community
Stone projectile skills help foragers occupy rainforests during southern Asia migration
Stone Age discovery shows Homo sapiens survived in Kalahari
Prehistoric Swiss Army knife indicates early humans communicated
Oldest known ochre processing in East Asia discovered