More than any other ancient relative, Lucy has challenged us to think deeply about what it means to be human.
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At a global level it is rare to find fossilised hominin tracks.
The exhibit offers a close look at the problematic history of palaeoanthropology.
Experts insist there is no scientific reason for allowing these fossils to travel to space.
Scientists had figured a fossil found in Spain more than a century ago was from a Neandertal. But a new analysis suggests it could be from a lost lineage of our species, Homo sapiens.
Fossils aren’t just pieces of the past that allow scientists to look backwards. They can play a role in modern policy decision-making, too.
The findings suggest we weren’t the first advanced carnivore among the hominins, as has been previously assumed.
Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
Studying the lower back allows researchers to understand how the species’ anatomy was adapted for different kinds of movement.
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.
Early humans called Denisovans lived in a remote mountain cave between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago, and possibly longer still, raising intriguing questions about their relationship to modern humans.
A new environmental record for a prehistoric site in Kenya helped researchers figure out how external conditions influenced which of our ancient ancestors lived there, with what way of life.
You can’t own a human, so why can you own their remains? We need to stop treating human fossils as objects.
This is a hugely important find. It means that one of our earlier ancestors possibly originated in southern Africa.
Our findings reveal the slowing down of brain development in our ape-like ancestors began more than three million years ago.
New research suggests humans spread to Europe at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Director, Palaeo Institute, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology, New York University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Professor of Archaeological Theory and Method, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Paleoanthropologist, Université de Bordeaux
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Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences