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Plague in humans ‘twice as old’ but didn’t begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA...
New research using ancient DNA has revealed that plague has been endemic in human populations for more than twice as long as previously thought, and that the ancestral plague would have been...
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‘Virtual fossil’ reveals last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals
We know we share a common ancestor with Neanderthals, the extinct species that were our closest prehistoric relatives. But what this ancient ancestral population looked like remains a mystery, as...
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Opinion: Finding a hunter-gatherer massacre scene that may change history of...
The area surrounding Lake Turkana in Kenya was lush and fertile 10,000 years ago, with thousands of animals – including elephants, giraffes and zebras – roaming around alongside groups of hunter...
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Evidence of a prehistoric massacre extends the history of warfare
The fossilised bones of a group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who were massacred around 10,000 years ago have been unearthed 30km west of Lake Turkana, Kenya, at a place called Nataruk.Researchers...
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Opinion: No giant leap for mankind: why we’ve been looking at human evolution...
Understanding exactly how and why humans evolved is clearly one of the most important goals in science. But despite a significant amount of research to date, these questions have remained a bit of a...
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Unprecedented study of Aboriginal Australians points to one shared Out of...
The first major genomic study of Aboriginal Australians ever undertaken has confirmed that all present-day non-African populations are descended from the same single wave of migrants, who left Africa...
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Sharpening our knowledge of prehistory on East Africa’s bone harpoons
East Africa is the epicentre of human evolution and its archaeological remains offer the potential to fill gaps in our understanding of early modern humans from their earliest origins, around 200,000...
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Mapping the family tree of stars
By studying chemical signatures found in the stars, they are piecing together these evolutionary trees looking at how the stars formed and how they are connected to each other. The signatures act as a...
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Celebrating 10 years of European research excellence
When European government representatives met in Lisbon in the year 2000, and expressed an aspiration that Europe should become the world's leading knowledge economy by 2010, they agreed on the need to...
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Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding
The study, reported in the journal Science, examined genetic information from the remains of anatomically modern humans who lived during the Upper Palaeolithic, a period when modern humans from Africa...
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