Tony Legge was an outstanding archaeologist who worked especially in zooarchaeology, the study of animal bones from archaeological excavations. He made major contributions to our understanding of prehistoric people's relationships to animals, including the beginnings of herding. His passion for the subject and deep scepticism of colleagues who only knew about animals from books enthused his students, including many adult learners, as he himself had been.

A whizzier version of The Flintstones, this DreamWorks animation concerns a Neanderthal family discovering that there is life beyond their cave.

A new finding has cast doubt on the theory that ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals over thousands of years.

Professor George Church plans to bring our long-extinct relative back to life using artificial DNA

As the rich world suffers its crisis of excess, we can learn much from peoples who live with little.

Southend United 2 Bradford City 2: Bantams get back to the routine grind with a draw against Southend in League Two

Composer Howard Goodall, who has written and presented the show, says he wants to 'show a straight line that runs through to the present day'

A police officer admitted saying a black man looked like a monkey but said it had nothing to do with his race and that he was pointing him out during a discussion about evolution, a court heard today.

Scientists have found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons 200,000 years earlier than once thought, findings that may change notions about the capabilities of prehistoric people.

The date when stone-age humans first invented the lethal technology of spears and arrows has been set back many thousands of years with the discovery of small stone blades dating to 71,000 years ago.

We've had Alien vs. Predator, Monsters vs. Aliens and Dracula vs. Frankenstein, but what would happen if modern man and his prehistoric ancestor were to square off?

The new Culture Secretary today risked incurring the wrath of the Conservative Party’s right flank with a resounding endorsement of the Government’s gay marriage agenda.

The shared DNA of Neanderthals and humans is probably due to a common ancestor

Yet more evidence of the profusion of human ancestry has dealt another blow to the notion of a single "missing link" between modern Homo sapiens and our ape-like forebears.