Ancient DNA is rarely well-preserved in fossils, so scientists need to recognize possible hybridization of early humans from skeletons
The famous Sterkfontein Caves deposit is one million years older than previously thought; a new study is published on PNAS
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration
Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates
