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Cave dirt DNA is rewriting early human and Neanderthal history
In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...
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1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolution
Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...
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'Biological time capsules': How DNA from cave dirt is revealing clues about early humans and Neanderthals
The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.
Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...
Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...
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What If You Lived in the Prehistoric Era?
Millions of years ago, early humans lived in a world where survival was anything but guaranteed. Wild predators, unpredictable weather, and deadly diseases constantly threatened their existence. But ...
“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...
Megan Malherbe is affiliated with the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, and the Human Evolution Research Institute at the University of Cape Town. Understanding what the ...
These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...
Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.
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