Category: EVOLUTION

Homo sapiens did not simply spring from a single ancestor. It is beginning to look like H....

Is the handle better than fire and the wheel? There is always going to be a debate as to which of...

Our emotions allowed our Homo to outdo every other Homo. 50,000 years ago, Eurasia boasted not...

Oh, to travel back in time. Researchers have unearthed yet another species of Homo, Nesher Ramla...

Human beings are a lot more diverse than you first thought. It turns out that some hybrid species...

We can now manufacture biorobots from scratch. You have heard of genetic engineering as the...

The difference between frequency and adaptation in evolution. In a neat little series giving...

Is beautiful Botswana the home of Mitochondrial Eve? A group of researchers have concluded that it...

The history of human evolution takes another twist. New research suggests that mankind’s hominin...

Language enabled early man to develop social tolerance. Wrangham has written a summary of the...

Fascinating research explains why hominin brains grew large. Two research teams, working...

Yet another datapoint re-writing human history. Researchers have discovered a single finger bone...

Picture of early Homo sapiens history even more muddled. In 2017, reports emerged of the discovery...

Re-thinking mankind’s ancestry over the last few million years. It is increasingly clear...