Articles by

Bruce Bower

Little Foot’s shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed

Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered...

Riches in a Bronze Age grave suggest it holds a queen

A lavish Bronze Age burial found in southeastern Spain may hold a queen’s remains, researchers say. This...

Finds in a Spanish cave inspire an artistic take on warm-weather Neandertals

Here’s a scene guaranteed to melt the popular stereotype of Ice Age Neandertals as spear-wielding mammoth hunters...

Humanlike thumb dexterity may date back as far as 2 million years ago

Thumb dexterity similar to that of people today already existed around 2 million years ago, possibly in...