A new species of hominin or humans has been discovered in Northern China with an unforgettable physical feature— large heads. Everyone knows the Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and Denisovans are amongst ...
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A Million-Year-Old Skull Just Rewrote The Origin Story of Humanity
An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...
A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...
WASHINGTON - Two skeletons nearly 2 million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans.
A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...
Many known hominin fossils defy species classification, with the most famous example being the ever-enigmatic Denisovans. A new study by anthropologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ...
LOS ANGELES - DNA from a 40,000-year-old pinkie finger, belonging to a child and found in a cave in Siberia, indicates that it is from a previously unknown family of human relatives that lived among ...
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What if human evolution isn't what we think it is?
40,000 years ago, Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution. Advances in genetics reveal that our evolutionary ...
Newly found footprints show at least two hominid species were walking through the submerged edge of a lake in the Turkana Basin in Kenya at the same time. The discovery, from the renowned hominid ...
Is happiness in nature? When you look at the scientific literature on the subject, it seems clear that the answer is yes. Yet ...
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