Through digitally recreating the muscles of an early human ancestor, research has shed new light on how humans evolved to walk upright.
The new evidence shows that humans attempted to expand several times before the last successful expansion.
Footprints dating back to 153,000 years ago in South Africa are now the oldest Homo Sapien footprints to be discovered.
How did humans arrive and settle in Europe, and how did they interact with the Neanderthals who were already there?
It became the first prehistoric artifact linked by genetic sleuthing to a specific person. It is unknown whether the woman made or merely wore it.
Early Neolithic groups from Anatolia spread and settled across Europe in the period from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago and became the first farmers.
It unveils important changes in the genetic makeup of some regions following major climate changes,” - Ludovic Orlando, a molecular archaeologist.