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A journey towards human origins: Phillip Tobias set out to become a geneticist and evolved instead into an anti-apartheid campaigner and leading light in the study of the beginnings of the human species
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Life and death on the wagon trail: Eighty-seven pioneers set off in 1846 to cross the arid wastelands of the American Midwest – nearly half died. Their fate reveals what can happen to groups under extreme stress
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On the trail of the Piltdown fraudsters: An eclectic and restless mind led Frank Spencer to unearth new evidence that the hoax was a plot involving one of the eminent anatomists of the time
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Primate origins up in the air again: Extinct creatures that everyone thought were our earliest primate ancestors, finely tuned to life as visual predators, turn out instead to have been exquisitely adapted to gliding
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The case of the lookalike jackals: How can three virtually identical species of jackal share the same habitat? Molecular biologists and ecologists working together have explained the mystery
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