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Anthropology

A composite fossil skeleton of Homo nadedi on display at the Maropeng Museum near Johannesburg, South Africa. PHOTO: JEFF MILLER

Evidence of intentional burial, cave engravings by early human ancestor

Modern human and Neanderthal skulls, showing difference in nasal height. Courtesy of Dr, Kaustubh Adhikari, UCL.

Neanderthal noses influence human honkers

The bone that researchers found belonged to an ancient individual that the Wrangell Cooperative Association named Tatóok yík yées sháawat (Young lady in cave). Credit: University at Buffalo

Searching for ancient bears in an Alaskan cave led to an important human discovery

Gossip illustration

Gossip influences who gets ahead in different cultures

Example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food.

Surprising similarities found in stone tools of early humans and monkeys

Young boy climbing a tree using a rope

How could we evolve such a huge brain?

Skull of one of the mysterious backtrackers

Ancient Siberian population migrated back from North America

Human bipedalism – walking upright on two legs – may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.

Early humans may have first walked upright in the trees

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