A fossil face reveals that a prehistoric human species reached Western Europe much earlier than anybody thought.
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Ancient DNA helps reveal the tangled branches of the human family tree. Not only did our ancestors live alongside other human species, they mated with them, too.
The 140,000-year-old skull fossils are leading to more questions than answers. Also found was the oldest intact campfire ever found in the open air.
Our research has also uncovered major long-term changes in ancient animal populations at Denisova Cave, and has provided the first direct evidence of Homo sapiens having lived there.
300,000 years ago, there were lots of different species of human. Now it’s only us – and we’re probably the reason why.
Humans butchered a rhino in a remote part of the Philippines 700,000 years ago, but who were they and how did they get there?
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Group Leader, Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Professor at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) and at PalaeoDiet Research Lab-Monash University, Monash University