Why do we have a chin?
The chin serves no obvious purpose.
Big, small and sometimes dimpled, everyone has a chin – and we’d look pretty odd without one. But why is it there? Th...
Homo sapiens
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Neanderthal milk teeth reveal their secrets
Study offers new evidence on weaning and growth.
Neanderthal children grew and were weaned in much the same way as Homo sapiens, new research suggests.Virtual ren...
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Early fossil evidence of humans in Europe
Artefacts suggest cultural interaction with Neanderthals.
Newly unearthed fossil remains offer the earliest clear evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe and suggest they had great...
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Europe's oldest known modern human
Skull from a Greek cave is at least 210,000 years old.
Two skulls chiselled from a slab of Greek rock have deepened our understanding of early humans living on the European...
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Neanderthal genes influence head shape
The effects of long-distant interspecies breeding finds expression in modern skulls.
Researchers have gleaned insights into what makes human brains bulbous from our closest evolutionary relative – the N...
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Fossil find pushes back birth of modern humans
The timeline of human evolution pushed back by 100,000 years.
The discovery of modern human remains dating to 300,000 years ago looks set to overturn many current models of the ev...
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Paying a heavy price for loving the Neanderthals
Engaged in amorous congress with the evolutionary cousins.
One of the biggest surprises about our evolution revealed over just the last decade is the extent to which our ancest...
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Why we have so few Neanderthal genes
Hybrids could have had anatomical problems.
Human evolution may not simply be a case of “survival of the fittest”, but also “survival of the many”, according to ...
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Discovery sheds light on hobbits' demise
Understanding when Homo floresiensis vanished.
New evidence narrows the time gap between the last Homo floresiensis – the so-called hobbits on the Indonesian stand ...
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A simple rule for our ancestors' molar size
A single tooth informs us about one of our oldest relatives.
The size of whole row of teeth from our most ancient hominin ancestors can be gleaned from a single tooth, according ...