Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...
Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...
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3.3-million-year-old stone tools predate every known human species
The oldest known deliberately made stone tools were discovered at Lomekwi 3 in West Turkana, Kenya, and date to about 3.3 ...
An entire ancient human species, Homo naledi, is known from specimens found at just one site in South Africa, back in 2013. At first, 15 individuals were found inside the Rising Star cave system. Now, ...
Homo habilis sits near the base of the Homo genus, though its exact classification and relationship to Homo erectus remain debated. Fossils from Olduvai Gorge and other East African sites show a small ...
Scientists have extracted and analyzed the first-ever ancient proteins from the fossils of Homo naledi, revealing a potential all-female burial site. The study, published in the journal Cell, raises ...
Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa over the past decade — and what they have revealed has rocked the field of human ...
A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes. Researchers have excavated hundreds of Homo naledi bones from the cave system known as ...
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Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...
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