Ancient human fossils reveal a startling twist in evolutionary history
Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...
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A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry
Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a ... applications is to give a more complete sense of human ancestry, says Gideon Bradburd, U-M professor of ecology and ...
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...
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Earliest human face fossil from Western Europe, nicknamed "Pink," discovered in Spanish pit
Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say ... actor in the history of human evolution in Europe," study author ...
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1.4-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragments Linked to Mystery Human Ancestor
“This paper introduces a new actor in the story of human evolution in Europe, Homo affinis erectus,” said study co-author Rosa Huguet, a paleoanthropologist at the Institut Català de ...
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Two mummies reveal a human lineage lived in isolation in the Green Sahara 7,000 years ago
DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...