Meet some of the people featured in the June 2020 issue of The Scientist.

A tooth and six bone fragments are the oldest confirmed Homo sapiens fossils in Europe.

The McGill University paleontologist, who died from COVID-19, was known for using multidisciplinary methods to explore the origins of amphibians, birds, and mammals.

Researchers discover a fragment of cord between 41,000 and 52,000 years old that points to Neanderthals’ complex cognitive abilities.

A new fossil discovery indicates a second primate group also traversed the Atlantic millions of years ago on a raft of vegetation.

A new study finds that the extinct European cave bear’s large sinuses represent a tradeoff between hibernation length and the flexibility of their diets.

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in later hominins.

The crania of individuals who lived in the Yucatán Peninsula during the late Pleistocene show a high degree of anatomical diversity among them, and their skull shapes differ from that of other North American populations of the time.

An analysis of fossilized teeth sheds light on the evolutionary relationships between Pleistocene hominins.