24 November 2021
Compassion and sociability helped Homo sapiens survive climatic changes that wiped out other types of humans. Will those skills be enough to survive another bout of climate change?
18 August 2021
The study of human evolution has neglected huge areas of Earth, and recent discoveries from Arabia suggest these places have a lot to tell us
30 June 2021
We should be wary of attempts to impose a simple narrative on the story of early human evolution – recent discoveries can be interpreted in many ways and future finds are likely to cause further rethinking
27 January 2021
For millennia, our species advanced in lockstep with the Denisovans and it is hard to work out from archaeological finds why they disappeared from the planet while we now dominate it
23 September 2020
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is one of the greatest accomplishments of human intellect and it is continuing to bring further insights under its wing
2 October 2019
Multi-agent artificial intelligence simulations could show us how to help people live in harmony – or how to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment. We must agree rules for its use
25 September 2019
The New World wasn’t conquered by a single group of people - different populations migrated and interbred in a tangled web. This is the new normal for human evolution
20 March 2019
Signs that our ancestors reached Australia 120,000 years ago may be "difficult to credit", but recent discoveries have shattered many similar preconceptions
