Tag: Human evolution
How midnight digs at a holy Tibetan cave opened a window to prehistoric humans living on the roof of the world
Picture: Han Yuanyuan
A mountainside cave now used as a Tibetan Buddhist sanctuary was home to prehistoric humans known as Denisovans for tens of millennia.
Our painstaking...
White supremacists believe in genetic ‘purity’. Science shows no such thing exists
Picture - Mike Stewart / AP
Far-right white supremacist ideology is on the rise in Europe, North America and Australia. It appeals to a racist notion whereby many white...
Got your bag? The critical place of mobile containers in human evolution
Picture: Shuttlestock
Today, bags are everywhere — from cheap canvas ones at the supermarket to designer handbags costing up to US$2,000,000.
But archaeological evidence shows we...
Humanity’s birthplace: why everyone alive today can call northern Botswana home
Researcher Vanessa Hayes with the Ju/’hoansi people in the
ancestral homeland of humanity. Chris Bennett/Evolving Picture
Where was the evolutionary birthplace of modern humans? The...
Human evolution: secrets of early ancestors could be unlocked by African rainforests
Image courtesy Oleg Znamenskiy/Shutterstock.com
Think of rainforests and the picture is inevitably one of a dark and forbidding realm where life is abundant, yet alarmingly...