Ancient humans hunted animals by throwing a stick like a boomerang
19 July 2023
Analysis of a wooden stick thought to be around 300,000 years old suggests it was designed to be thrown rotationally, rather than as a spear
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Some of the earliest modern humans in Europe used bows and arrows
22 February 2023
A site in France briefly occupied by modern humans is littered with stone points that were probably used as arrowheads, showing that bows and arrows were used in Europe much earlier than we thought
Modern humans evolved a 'selfish' X chromosome after Africa exodus
23 November 2022
The chromosome may contain regions that promote their DNA's spread by killing sperm that carry Y chromosomes. However, Y chromosomes may have evolved counter mechanisms over time
Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA
3 October 2022
Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics
When did humans start making art and were Neanderthals artists too?
15 July 2022
On a visit to see ancient cave art in Spain, Michael Marshall explores why it's so hard to calculate the age of early human artworks and whether other hominins might also have created art.
Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours
16 July 2021
Just 1.5 to 7 per cent of the modern human genome is uniquely ours – meaning it emerged after we split from other ancient human groups including the Neanderthals and Denisovans
Climate change may have driven early human species to extinction
15 October 2020
Sudden climatic changes may have been a significant driver of the extinction of early human species, including the Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis
This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like
19 September 2019
A team has used DNA from an ancient fingerbone to predict what our extinct cousins the Denisovans looked like but the method is unlikely to be accurate
Oldest Denisovan art discovered on 100,000-year-old bone fragments
18 July 2019
Etchings on pieces of ancient bone found in China could be the clearest evidence yet found that the mysterious Denisovans were capable of advanced cognition
How Earth's changing ecosystems may have driven human evolution
6 February 2019
The most detailed ever look at Earth's prehistoric climate suggests many habitats changed in the past 800,000 years – and this may be why we evolved big brains
