New dates on Chinese fossils raise question of how many times we left Africa

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

Species on east–west coastlines are more likely to go extinct than those on north–south shores—new study

As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black sea bass, for instance, have shifted hundreds of ...

Rewriting our understanding of early hominin dispersal from Africa to Eurasia

What if Homo erectus (H. erectus), the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived in China much earlier than we thought? Research published in Science Advances may rewrite our understanding of early ...
Nature

The Origin of Continents and Oceans

THE wide appeal of Prof. Wegener's theory of the arrangement of ocean and continent is shown by, the issue of a third greatly revised edition and of this excellent English translation. His theory is ...