Humans
Ancient humans were weirdly slow to cross from mainland Asia to Java
Homo erectus probably only arrived on Indonesia about 1.3 million years ago, even though they were widespread in Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier
News
Humans
Homo erectus lived recently enough that it may have met Denisovans
News
Humans
Martin Rees: We will become a new species by expanding beyond Earth
News
Humans
Think you understand how evolution works? You’re probably wrong
Features
Humans
D’oh! Why human beings aren’t as intelligent as we think
Features
Humans
A single gene controls how our faces develop when we are young
News
Humans
Our incredible origins: The astonishing tale of Homo naledi
Video
Environment
Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why
News
Humans
Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?
News
Humans
Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?
An extinct ape that lived in Germany 11.6 million years ago may have been bipedal – even though walking upright is the hallmark of more human-like species
News
Humans
Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It’s complicated
News
Humans
Long strand of DNA from Neanderthals found in people from Melanesia
News
Humans
Humans evolved to think faster by slowing down brain development
News
Humans
Lee Berger: We have made another major discovery about early humans
News