From sticks to stones—getting a grip on the human genus
2015 has already been an amazing year for human evolution science.
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Ancient fossils reveal diversity in the body structure of human ancestors
Recently released research on human evolution has revealed that species of early human ancestors had significant differences in facial features. Now, a University of Missouri researcher and her international team of colleagues ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 9, 2015
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Culture skews human evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an era where culture ...
Evolution
Mar 12, 2009
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Neanderthals are not the only species whose dentition is characterized by the possession of thin enamel
The Dental Anthropology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has participated in a paper published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology on the dental remains of ...
Archaeology
Jan 18, 2023
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Humankind's odyssey from Africa began more than two million years ago
Can you imagine walking 14,000km? Trekking across wide savannas, down creek beds, along mountain chains in terrain that is new and home to foreign types of plants and animals? Can I eat this? What is that?
Archaeology
Jul 12, 2018
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What we know so far about where humans come from
The question of where we humans come from is one many people ask, and the answer is getting more complicated as new evidence is emerging all the time.
Archaeology
Jan 8, 2018
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How the Homo floresiensis kept their tools as they shrank into island life
The scientific debate continues over the bones of the mysterious human-like creature Homo floresiensis – nicknamed "Hobbits" – with the discovery of new fossils in the So'a Basin on the island of Flores, Indonesia, dating ...
Archaeology
Jun 9, 2016
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Homo naledi may be two million years old (give or take)
There has been global interest in the announcement of new fossils from a cave called Rising Star in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.
Archaeology
Nov 30, 2015
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'Homo' is the only primate whose tooth size decreases as its brain size increases
Andalusian researchers, led by the University of Granada, have discovered a curious characteristic of the members of the human lineage, classed as the genus Homo: they are the only primates where, throughout their 2.5-million ...
Evolution
Apr 3, 2014
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New Kenyan fossils shed light on early human evolution
Fossils discovered east of Africa's Lake Turkana confirm that there were two additional species of our genus—Homo—living alongside our direct human ancestral species, Homo erectus, almost two million years ago. The finds, ...
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