World's most-spoken languages may have arisen in ancient Iran
23 May 2018
About 3 billion people speak Indo-European languages like English and Hindustani, and it seems the first such tongue was spoken south of the Caucasus mountains
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Early Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and blue eyes
7 February 2018
A genetic analysis of Cheddar Man, one of the first people to settle in Britain after the last ice age, suggests that his skin was dark
What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us
24 October 2017
Two 9.7-million-year-old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported
Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils
27 September 2017
You’d be amazed how little evidence supports many of our ancient human ancestors. Here are the five species with the fewest fossils
See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands
25 July 2017
We know very little about the Ediacaran organisms that lived on Earth before true animals, but scans are now revealing what they looked like on the inside
Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them
3 May 2017
Confused by the flood of news about ancient humans? Here’s the low-down on what new discoveries are revealing about the complicated story of our ancestors
