A coastal migration up and out of Africa was more likely to succeed than an overland journey.
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The dinosaurs went extinct on Christmas Day.
Light helps explains the evolution of our skin colour, why some of us have curly hair, and the size of our eyes. And light still shapes us today.
The findings reveal a close association between climatic conditions and early human migrations out of Africa.
The South African Khoe-San communities are no strangers to exploitative research. One research team is trying to provide genetic ancestry results to community members. But they still face many challenges.
The new work presents the oldest dated evidence for hominins in Arabia, in the form of an ancient handaxe tool uncovered from the Nefud Desert.
Genetic analysis has traced the evolutionary footsteps of modern humans all the way back to a prehistoric wetland that spanned parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Modern day people of short stature became physically small due to the effects of living on a small island or forested environment. But we’re not sure why “the Hobbit” of Flores was so small.
A manifesto from 23 researchers challenges old models, and outlines the major new directions archaeology should follow to solve the puzzling origins of modern humans.
Conquer the globe? You bet we did – but when did it start? A new paper shows early humans made tools in China two million years ago.
Scientists have discovered sophisticated tools in Kenya that are much older than expected.
Recent research suggests that humankind’s origins lay outside of Africa. This is the nature of science: a paradigm that cannot be questioned on a regular basis becomes a dogma.
New paired research papers have pushed back by 100,000 years the time frame in which humans (Homo sapiens) are thought to have lived in Africa.
New research into how early humans spread across the world settles several long-running debates.
Despite science refuting the existence of different human races, people have used “race” throughout history to divide and denigrate certain people while promoting their claims of superiority.
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, Griffith University
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Professor of Archaeological Theory and Method, University of Liverpool
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Senior Research Associate, Australian National University
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Osteoarchaeology, Uppsala University
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
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Professor, Institute of Marine Sciences, Shantou University
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Lecturer in Mediterranean Prehistory, University of Malta