Articles Evolution of our body
Neanderthal hands could have made human tools
Neanderthal hands preserve evidence of their muscles. These reveal that they were very dexterous, on par with our own level of dexterity.
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Food preparation gave us evolutionary advantage
How did humans outcompete Neanderthals? New research suggests we were better at food preparation, giving us the evolutionary edge.
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Was the first grave an accident?
Sima de los Huesos is a Spanish cave that may well be the worlds first grave. Or is it just an accidental accumulation? New research investigates.
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Articles Creationism
Carbon dating: testing creationist arguments
Testing carbon dating on objects of known age helped prove the method was reliable. Now researchers are doing it again to prove creationists aren’t.
Articles Brain & behaviour
Facial reconstruction of a 25,000-year-old “Shaman”
In 1949 a shaman was discovered at Dolni Vestonici. 70 years later, technological advancments mean its now possible to do a forensic facial reconstruction.
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Neanderthals could start a fire with ancient lighters
Ancient Neanderthal tools seem to have been used to start a fire, settling a debate over whether they could make their own flames.
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Neanderthal cave art is fake news?
We recently found the first evidence of Neanderthal cave art. However, some are skeptical of this discovery. Is it really what it seems?
Brain & behaviour
The origin of religion, according to hunter-gatherers
There’s a lot of variety in hunter-gatherers’ religious beliefs. Can we use all this data to figure out what early religion was like?
Evolution of our body
Did body odor evolve to scare of predators?
A narrow escape from a predator led Louis Leakey to think our body odor evolved to scare off predators. Does his idea have any merit?
Brain & behaviour
Neanderthals lived further north than we thought
Neanderthals lived across Europe, but never seemed to make it further north than Germany. New research suggests we haven’t been looking hard enough.