Pleistocene
(2.6 MYA - 10 KYA)
Fate of the Cave Bear
The lumbering beasts coexisted with the first humans for tens of thousands of years and then died off. Why?
December 2010 |
By Andrew Curry
The Human Family's Earliest Ancestors
Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins
March 2010 |
By Ann Gibbons
Dampier Rock Art Complex, Australia
On the northwestern coast of Australia, over 500,000 rock carvings face destruction by industrial development
March 2009 |
By Laura Helmuth
The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
July 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Head Case
Two fossils found in Kenya raise evolutionary questions
August 01, 2007 |
By Robin T. Reid
Teeth Tales
Fossils tell a new story about the diversity of hominid diets
November 01, 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
