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Archaeologists discover half a million-year-old wooden structure — and it’s not built by Homo sapiens

Nearly half a million years ago, ancient humans at Kalambo Falls in Zambia shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to ...
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Homo Sapiens Isn't The Most Successful Human Species – If We're Judging By Years In The Game

As the last ones standing, we Homo sapiens like to think of ourselves as the winners, but the truth is that one of our ...

New Fossil Study Challenges the Classic Story of Human Evolution

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...
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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind / Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author, with the help of John Purcell and Haim Watzman ; maps by Neil Gower

Translation of: Kitsur toldot ha-enoshut. 2011. "First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Mora-Bitan, Dvir."--Title page verso. "Previously published in a slightly different form in ...
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315,000-year-old Moroccan fossils rewrote where Homo sapiens began

Fossils discovered at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco date to about 315,000 years ago, making them the oldest widely recognized Homo ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Our Ancestors Loved Shell Trinkets, Just Like Neanderthals. New Research Suggests It’s a Sign of Shared Culture Across Species

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...
Reuters

Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most ...
PBS

A look at the new discoveries that make Neanderthals more knowable now than ever

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens's closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...
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Neanderthal Babies Were ‘Built Different’ and Could Reach Toddler Size in Only Six Months

ZME Science. When scientists examined the incredibly well-preserved skeleton of a Neanderthal infant from an Israeli cave, ...

Hobbit-like humans may have scavenged Komodo dragons’ leftovers to survive

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...
CNN

A tiny tooth unearthed from a French cave is upending what we know about early humans

A child’s tooth unearthed from a French cave has revealed the earliest evidence of humans – Homo sapiens – living in western Europe. The discovery of the molar from Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in ...