Cambridge researchers have raised questions about the theory that Neanderthals and modern humans at some point interbred. Their findings show that common ancestry, not hybridization, better explains the average 1-4 …
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old hominin found in Sima de los Huesos, Spain. Sima de …
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A fresh study on Homo floresiensis, conducted by Prof Robert Eckhardt of Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues, suggests that LB1 – the primary specimen on which the mysterious human …
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A multinational group of anthropologists has described a new human ancestor species that lived in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia about 3.3 – 3.5 million years ago, …
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Life in what is now Tanzania was difficult and dangerous 1.8 million years ago, according to a team of scientists from the United States, Switzerland and Spain. Paranthropus boisei. Image …
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Humans inherit their nose shape from their parents, but ultimately, the shape of someone’s nose and that of their parents was formed by a long process of adaptation to local …
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A University of Oxford-led team of scientists has observed bearded capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus) in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally producing sharp-edged flakes that have the characteristics and morphology of intentionally …
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Two partial archaic human skulls unearthed in central China provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in eastern Eurasia. Virtual …
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An international team of paleoanthropologists, led by Professor Madelaine Böhme of the University of Tübingen, Germany, has analyzed 7.2 million-year-old remains of the hominin Graecopithecus freybergi and came to the …
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The fossilized remains of at least five individuals discovered at the archaeological site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco have been dated at 315,000 years, making them the oldest known fossils …
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