Could humanity be extinct within 10,000 years? A new book is the wake up call our species needs
In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our time on Earth.
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Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up
New research outlines how the ancestors of modern humans interbred with several archaic human groups on the passage from Africa to Australia.
How the origin of the KhoiSan tells us that ‘race’ has no place in human ancestry
Human population groups worldwide are highly homogeneous genetically. They are in fact 99.5% similar and their anatomical features vary in an uncorrelated fashion over the landscape.
More secrets of human ancestry emerge from South African caves
Evidence of Homo naledi’s age suggests we need to rethink our understanding of human history and evolution.
The origin of ‘us’: what we know so far about where we humans come from
The story of where humans come from is growing as new evidence – and new methods of analysis – emerge all the time.