As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with several other hominins. These include the best-known of our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, but ...
A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...
Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...
Homo juluensis was identified as a possible new human species that lived in eastern Asia about 300,000 years ago and vanished ...
The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.
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Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...
He was awarded the Master's Excellence Scholarship to study at Cardiff University where he completed a master's degree in international journalism. He also has a second master's degree in biodiversity ...