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Posting the latest discoveries in human evolution and primatology. We also spotlight the broader field of biological anthropology—from the history of our discipline to talks, conferences, and job opportunities.

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The Oldest Human Ancestor May Have Just Been Found Somewhere Very Unexpected Our story may not begin in Africa after all.
06.03.2026 05:41 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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A 2,850-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a shift in prehistoric violence Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls.
05.03.2026 00:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Teeth smaller than a fingertip reveal the first primate ancestor Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all pr...
04.03.2026 21:43 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Arrowhead points found in Central Asia could prove the presence of ‘Homo sapiens’ 80,000 years ago Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – our modern human ancestors – came to Europe.
04.03.2026 20:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First 3D reconstruction of the face of 'Little Foot' completed Identified as the most complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date, "Little Foot" was buried in sediments whose movement and weight caused fractures and deformations, making analysis of its sk...
03.03.2026 06:10 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient mosquitoes developed a taste for early hominins, research reveals The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit malaria—for feeding on humans may have evolved in response to the arrival of early ho...
01.03.2026 21:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Humans and Neanderthals interbred — but it was mostly male Neanderthals and female humans who coupled up, study finds A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.
27.02.2026 06:11 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Meet The 1.5-Million-Year-Old ‘Ghost’ In Your Genes. Hint: We’ve Haven’t Found Its Fossils Yet New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.”
25.02.2026 10:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unravelling the Palaeolithic Welcome to the website for the Unravelling the Palaeolithic conference 2026! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is an ECR and student-led conference with a history of showcasing excellence in research in P...

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026: Two day conference on all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June.

Call for papers now open: sites.google.com/view/unravel...

24.02.2026 21:40 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Palaeoanthropological evidence from China is changing the picture of hominin evolutionary history - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors review recent archaeological and palaeoanthropological discoveries from China and discuss how they change our understanding of human evolution.
24.02.2026 10:49 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A regional-scale mobility model for the early hominin occupation of the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia) - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A regional-scale mobility model for the early hominin occupation of the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia)
24.02.2026 10:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient artifacts hint at earliest protowriting Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language
24.02.2026 06:40 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel - Communications Biology Tooth enamel preserves endogenous amino acids for over 40 million years, representing a robust and underexplored archive for deep-time biomolecular research and enabling future paleoproteomic and isot...
23.02.2026 21:53 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.
23.02.2026 05:53 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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The axis (C2) from El Sidrón and its implications for Neanderthal upper cervical spine form
22.02.2026 01:20 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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2,000-year-old skulls reveal people in ancient Vietnam permanently blackened their teeth — a stylish practice that persists today In a study of 2,000-year-old skulls from Vietnam, archaeologists discovered that iron was the primary component that dyed teeth black.
22.02.2026 01:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.
21.02.2026 21:46 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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DNA analysis provides insight into Mongol Empire’s genetics and integration with local cultures Are one in 200 men really related to Genghis Khan? Maybe not, according to a new study from researchers at UW–Madison.
21.02.2026 21:39 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today? Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.
21.02.2026 10:10 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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'Absolute surprise': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old — the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East Asia A new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.
20.02.2026 21:50 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Dog walkers discover 2,000-year-old human footprints on beach Archaeologists say the human and animal prints were made at the height of the Roman Empire
19.02.2026 23:40 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ancient drought may have wiped out the real-life hobbits 61,000 years ago A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species disapp...
19.02.2026 21:28 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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5,500 years ago, a teenage girl was buried with her father's bones on her chest, new DNA study reveals A novel DNA analysis of skeletons excavated from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer cemetery in Sweden has revealed surprising family relationships.
19.02.2026 21:27 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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News - Early Bronze Age Burial Discovered in Northwestern France - Archaeology Magazine NORMANDY, FRANCE—La Brujula Verde reports that a burial pit dated to between 1900 and 1800 […]
18.02.2026 21:23 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientists Say Your Fingers Hold a Secret of Brain Evolution The secret to how our brains grew may be hidden in our fingers before we are even born.
18.02.2026 04:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence is revealing their pivotal role
17.02.2026 22:48 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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60,000 years ago humans were already using poisoned arrows Sixty thousand years ago, humans in southern Africa were already mastering nature’s chemistry. Scientists have discovered chemical traces of poison from the deadly gifbol plant on ancient quartz arrow...
16.02.2026 21:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Complex fiber and wood technologies of the first Great Basin peoples From Cougar Mountain Cave and Paisley Caves, Oregon, come remarkably preserved examples of perishable materials.
15.02.2026 21:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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3D scanning and shape analysis help archaeologists connect objects across space and time to recover their lost histories Digital tools allow archaeologists to identify similarities between fragments and artifacts and potentially recover previously unknown parts of their stories.
15.02.2026 03:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Did modern humans wipe out the Neanderthals? New evidence may finally provide answers. A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.
14.02.2026 23:49 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0