6/12/20 2:00PM
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Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it…
4/09/20 11:00AM
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Scientists working in the south of France have discovered a small Neanderthal cord fragment dating back to over…
4/02/20 2:00PM
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A partial skull found in South Africa suggests Homo erectus—an ancestral human species—appeared 100,000 years…
4/01/20 2:00PM
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Human evolution was messy, with multiple human species living and interbreeding at the same time, in a convoluted…
3/26/20 5:20PM
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Neanderthals living in Portugal during the last ice age consumed copious amounts of seafood, according to new…
3/04/20 2:00PM
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Archaeologists in Ethiopia have uncovered skull fragments and tools belonging to Homo erectus, one of the most…
2/25/20 5:50PM
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Humans may have continued to thrive in spite of a supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, according to a new study.…
1/30/20 11:15AM
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We’re all a little Neanderthal. That’s the conclusion of a study that used a new statistical technique to revise…
1/09/20 2:00PM
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New research suggests Homo erectus—the most successful hominin prior to the emergence of modern humans—reached…
12/18/19 1:00PM
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Using modern dating techniques, scientists have dramatically narrowed the age of Homo erectus fossils found in Java…
10/31/19 1:43PM
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A new paper claiming that modern humans originated in northern Botswana some 200,000 years ago is being criticized…
10/29/19 9:30AM
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10/17/19 2:00PM
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A comprehensive analysis of DNA from modern Melanesian people suggests an assortment of mutated genes inherited from…
9/26/19 5:00AM
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For thousands of years, Siberia’s Denisova Cave was home to various bands of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern…
9/19/19 11:08AM
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A pinky finger bone, some teeth, and a lower jaw. That’s all the physical evidence we have of the mysterious…
9/04/19 2:00PM
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Very little is known about the Denisovans—a mysterious group of hominins that lived alongside early humans and…
8/28/19 1:00PM
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The discovery of a nearly intact skull in Ethiopia is the first to show the facial characteristics of a critically…
7/10/19 1:00PM
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A comprehensive re-analysis of a skull fragment found in a Greek cave back in the late 1970s suggests early modern…
5/17/19 4:50PM
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Dental evidence suggests Neanderthals and modern humans diverged from a common ancestor around 800,000 years…
5/08/19 2:30PM
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Humans evolved from a group of ape-like hominins known as Australopithecine, but scientists aren’t such which…