It’s being called “the first European” – rather a grand tag for a fragmentary jawbone and some worn teeth. Nevertheless, fossils have been unearthed in northern Spain that are 1.1 to 1.2 million years old and have been assigned to one of our hominin ancestors. Image: Nature
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There has been no assessment of whether existing drugs programmes in UK prisons actually work,...
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Certain mutated HIV strains are easier to fight off in subsequent infections, a finding that could...
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Mick Jagger, Rupert Murdoch and Michael Douglas all have the right idea, evolutionarily speaking. Statistics show that monogamous men have the most children if they marry women younger than themselves. How much younger is the key question. Image: firemedic58
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It is a chicken and egg question – did mammals evolve nutritional milk before or after they abandoned yolky eggs? “Milk was originally for egg wetting,” says Henrik Kaessman at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Instead of a hard shell, the first mammalian eggs had a parchment-like covering which mothers rolled in milk to prevent them drying out, he says. Image: Velo Steve
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