Svante Pääbo’s pioneering exploration of ancient DNA may be about to reveal what makes us human Svante Pääbo is the man who is rewriting the story of human evolution. From 1856, when the first Neanderthal skeleton was discovered in Germany, to the dawn of the 21st century, the map of our origins had to be pieced […]
Homo erectus, a hominin species that originated in equatorial Africa or the Caucasus region of Eurasia, arrived on the island of Java in Indonesia around 1.3 million years ago — 300,000 years later than previously thought, according to an analysis of zircon grains in tuffs from the archaeological site of Sangiran. The World Heritage archaeological site […]
