Discovery of half-a-million-year-old wooden structure shows we’re wrong to underestimate our ancient relatives: Excavators found part of a structure formed by two overlapping logs. Barham et al. Nature (2023), Author provided To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years …
Bonobos and chimps: what our closest relatives tell us about humans: Oleg Senkov/Shutterstock Humans are an interesting mixture of altruism and competition. We work together well at times and at others we will fight to get our own way. To try to explain these conflicting tendencies, researchers have turned to the chimpanzees and the bonobos …
The Brontës, the Shelleys, Kingsley and Martin Amis: new research suggests literary relatives share similar writing styles: Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell (c. 1834). He painted himself among his sisters, but later removed his image so as not to clutter the picture. National Portrait Gallery, London From Jane Austen to James …
Homo longi: extinct human species that may replace Neanderthals as our closest relatives found in China: What our relative may have looked like. CREDIT Chuang Zhao In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square eye sockets, thick …
South Africa in the news: ‘Always The Life Of The Party’: UK Man Among First To Be Vaccinated For COVID Has Mass. Relatives: He’s always the life of the party, has a ton of energy,” Fernandes said. “The last time I saw him was about five years ago he gave away my aunt at a …
A family affair: how close relatives can push new mums to work longer: Kaspars Grinvalds/Shutterstock How much should new mothers work? It turns out the example set within families and friendship groups has a major role in deciding the hours women will consider after returning from maternity leave. Policy makers should take note. We are …
Hundreds of transplants missed each year because families didn’t know relative’s wishes: A reluctance to talk about death is leading to hundreds of life-saving transplant opportunities being missed, say the NHS. More than three families a week are refusing donation of their deceased loved ones' organs – because they didn't know what their relative wanted. …