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Humans and Neanderthals only had sex for a brief period, but it still fundamentally changed our DNA
Scientists studied ancient humans and learned humans and Neanderthals started interbreeding 47,000 …
Jenny McGrath
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Nobel prize winner Svante Paabo's DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of…
PTI
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Extreme drought unearthed a human skull in the Minnesota River. A forensic anthropologist says it may be 8,000 years old.
Kayakers discovered a human skull in a drought-hit river last September. Experts say it likely belo…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The real Paleo diet was heavy on plants with very little meat, according to a study of early human remains
The study looked at the remains of ancient people buried in the Andean Altiplano of Peru about 9,00…
Marianne Guenot
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A child's skull found deep inside a South African cave offers new clues about a group of mysterious human ancestors
Scientists have uncovered the first fossil of a Homo naledi child. This ancestor lived about 250,00…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists discovered a 16-million-year-old fossilized tardigrade trapped in amber - a 'once-in-a-generation event'
Tardigrade fossils are hard to spot due to their tiny size. But experts found an ancient tardigrade…
Aylin Woodward
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Naming a species after a celebrity may do more harm than good
Many species were named in honor of famous people and celebrities. But species names are difficult …
Jenny McGrath
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Newly discovered fossil footprints show humans were in North America thousands of years earlier than we thought
Researchers once thought humans couldn't have migrated down from Siberia into North America during …
Aylin Woodward
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Cold War US spy satellite images reveal nearly 400 undiscovered Roman forts
The findings suggest that the Romans' eastern frontier was a hub of trade running from East-West ra…
Nathan Rennolds
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Researchers reconstruct the face of a teenage mummy believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual more than 500 years ago
Since her discovery in 1995 atop the Ampato volcano, she has been granted nicknames, including The …
Erin Snodgrass
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20,000-year-old footprints show humans have been in the Americas longer than previously thought, scientists say
Additional data dates human footprints in White Sands National Park to over 20,000 years ago, some …
Jenny McGrath
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3 species of human ancestors may have mixed and mingled in one Siberian cave 45,000 years ago - altering our evolution
A study suggests our mysterious cousins, the Denisovans, first occupied Denisova Cave. Then Neander…
Aylin Woodward
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5,000-year-old bacteria is the oldest strain of plague ever seen. Scientists found it in the ancient bones of a Stone Age man.
The oldest version of the plague that we know of infected a Stone Age hunter-gatherer millennia bef…
Aylin Woodward
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A human ancestor previously unknown to science lived alongside ancient humans and Neanderthals - and they all interbred
A human ancestor called Nesher Ramla homo occupied Israel and Arabia alongside humans at least 120,…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient people may have used human skulls for cups and other body parts for tools, according to a burial site in Spain
Many prehistoric people modified bones to honor the dead or make trophies. Archaeologists for smoot…
Jenny McGrath
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If you want to eat like your paleo ancestors, stop cutting out all carbs, a new study suggests
Advocates of the paleo diet assume that our human ancestors had a meat-heavy, low-carb diet. But re…