IT’S Leaving Cert time again; the cruel Darwinian ‘points race’ is selecting out the fittest. Such trials, alas, have always been with us.

A 30,000-YEAR-OLD fossil finger bone found in a Siberian cave belonged to a previously unknown strain of human, scientists said yesterday.

EVIDENCE of a previously unknown species of human that lived alongside our ancestors 40,000 years ago has been uncovered in Siberia.