paleoanthropology

Arts & Culture

The legacy of a great scientific hoax

The University of Melbourne’s anatomy museum features fossil models from an entirely fictional early human; a forgery that derailed the study of our evolution for decades

Sciences & Technology

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Podcast

Forty per cent banana, ninety nine per cent bonobo

While we know our distant relatives include chimps and bonobos, do we really know who our ancestors are?

Sciences & Technology

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Podcast

Untangling our evolutionary history

Professor Bernard Wood on why greater evidence can make it even harder to trace our origins