Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...
UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world's oldest humans have been discovered. The innovative tools were made from smashing stones together - and were ...
The oldest human being in the world is Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a 116-year-old nun from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul who was born on May 27, 1908. Sister Inah became the oldest ...
An international team of researchers that includes Rougier was able to sequence the oldest modern human genomes to date and discovered that those early Europeans had recently mixed with ...
Archaeologists have discovered the oldest ever human footprints ... and often these become covered over. Modern human footprints lose their fine details in mud flats within two days, and their ...
Modern chimpanzees select rock tools ... Studies of the Oldowan stone tools – the oldest known stone tool industry – show that human ancestors selected stones for tools based on their specific ...
The findings could impact our understanding of when modern humans reached regions like East Asia and Australia Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent A cast of a Neanderthal skull at the Chemnitz ...