We're beginning to question the idea of species – including our own
11 December 2019
Are you a human, or a human-Neanderthal hybrid? The concept of the species, one of the most basic in biology, may not be as well-defined as we think
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How did humans evolve from apes?
5 July 2019
Many parents dread the moment when a child asks where they came from. Charles Darwin found the subject awkward too: On the Origin of Species makes almost no mention of human evolution.
The tamed ape: were humans the first animal to be domesticated?
21 February 2018
Deep inside our genome are bits of DNA we share only with animals such as dogs and cattle. Our self-domestication may have been a pivotal moment in making us human
The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen
24 January 2018
Secrets about our origins could be hiding in a cave in Yemen, says Ella Al-Shamahi – if only she could get there
