Early language learning linked to school maths performance - report
Two-year study concludes into how children develop numeracy skills
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Woman’s skeleton shines light on early peopling of the New World
A FEMALE skeleton found in Mexico has strengthened the theory that humans originally reached the American continent from different points of origin.
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Spectacular Neanderthal find reopens debate about earliest 'burials'
The discovery of a virtually complete Neanderthal skeleton in Northern Iraq is set to reopen the debate about whether our closest ancient human relatives buried their dead.
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Our ancient relative who “walked like a human, but climbed like an ape”
New fossils are the missing link that settles a decades old debate proving early hominins used their upper limbs to climb like apes, and their lower limbs to walk like humans
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Ancient skeletal hand could reveal evolutionary secrets
A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could show how early humans moved and began to walk upright, according to new research.
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Pioneering climate education for infant schools
LJMU is leading the way globally in educating the youngest children about protecting our planet. We spoke to one of the leading architects of sustainability in early years education, Dr Diane Boyd.
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Genes reveal how our pelvis evolved for upright walking
From 3-4 million years ago the pattern points to bipedalism
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Anthropologists play down links between modern humans and Denisovans
An anthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University and other researchers have played down links between modern Asian physiology and a recently discovered early human species, Denisova hominins.
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Sinuses shed light on how humans got their unique skull shape
They are most-commonly associated with a blocked nose and headaches but the humble sinuses could hold an important key to the evolution of the human face.
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Diane to discuss climate education with Minister
Lecturer invited to DfE launch at Natural History Museum