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
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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
Neanderthals may have powered their bigger bodies by breathing deeper
30 October 2018
The Neanderthal rib cage was about the same size as ours but a different shape, which suggests the extinct humans could take in more air with each breath
