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Two in the year's 10 biggest stories

Posted on 21 December 2011

Two papers appear in the top 10 biggest science stories from PNAS and the Guardian

At this time of year researchers look back over the year, and often they make lists of the top research of the year.  Researchers from Palaeo appear in two such lists.

Congratulations to:

• Paul O'Higgins and  Flora Gröning for their paper which revealed that a jawbone fragment, from Kents Cavern, Devon, extends the overlap of modern humans and Neanderthals, which appears in the Guardian's Science review of 2011: the year's 10 biggest stories
  

• and to Terry O'Connor and Michi Hofreiter who a paper revealing that cave paintings may have realistically depicted horse which was picked as one of the 10 biggest stories in the PNAS Top 10 Stories of 2011.