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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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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Ice Age bone samples reveal DNA links between wolves and dogs
An international group of geneticists and archaeologists have analysed bones samples, some provided by LJMU, that reveal the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves.
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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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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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The life of a primatologist
Meet LJMU primate specialist and lecturer in Animal Behaviour, Dr Alex Piel. He talks about his research on chimpanzees and what they tell us about our own history.
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Roscoe latest: The rise and fall of human performance
‘The Roscoe’ returned to St George’s Hall this September with Professor Greg Whyte, delivering the lecture on ‘The rise and fall of human performance’ to hundreds of attendees.
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Early humans were using stone tools three million years ago
LJMU paleontologists part of international team to discover oldest prehistoric butchery site ever found
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First evidence of distinct human species living cheek by jowl
LJMU with scientists from US and Kenya find Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived in same place at same time
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Island lizards offer new twist on theories of evolution
Professor Richard Brown and Dr Carlo Meloro publish research in Communications Biology which shows divergence of a species of lizard despite cohabitation and gene exchange.