In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum are trying to help resolve this mystery by dating the skull more precisely using modern methods. Zambia achieved its independence from Britain in 1964.

Pronounced differences in the braincase, ear bones and pelvis can still be recognised in fossils of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens from 100,000 years ago.This suggests a separate evolutionary history ...

An endocast of a heavily mineralized cranium once belonging to that of Homo sapiens who lived about 130,000 years ago. Courtesy of Natural History Museum London.

One specimen that was used in this study, a five-year-old Neanderthal discovered at Devil’s Tower, Gibraltar, goes on show this weekend in the Natural History Museum’s new Human Evolution Gallery.

A mysterious but well-preserved hominid skull found nearly a century ago comes from a population that lived in Africa around 300,000 years ago, as the earliest Homo sapiens were evolving, a new ...

The inside of the skull’s frontal lobe turned out to be morphologically closer to Homo erectus than Neanderthals or Homo sapiens (though Homo erectus had a smaller brain than its two ...

Yet despite this closeness, Neanderthals' (Homo neanderthalensis) and Homo sapiens' lineages diverged sometime between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago, and the two species differed in many ways.

Fossilised skulls discovered in the Apidima Caves in Greece suggest modern humans may have arrived in Eurasia more than 150,000 years earlier than first th... Sunday, 6 April 2025.