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Modern humans mated with Denisovans several times in history and it gave us some surprising superpowers!
Recent discoveries revealed that our ancestors interbred with Denisovans on at least three separate…
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After reevaluating humanity's fossil record, a group of experts designated a new species of human ancestor
Experts reevaluated the human fossil record from the era between 129,000 and 774,000 years ago. Tha…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient tools and DNA discovered in a Tibetan cave shed unprecedented light on humans' most enigmatic ancestor, the Denisovans
Anthropologists found an ancient jawbone, tools, and DNA in a Tibetan cave. They come from Denisova…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' are more than 1 million years older than previously thought
To accurately determine the fossils' age, researchers analyzed particles from outer space in the ro…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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As Earth's climate got wetter, ancient humans were able to migrate more widely, a new scientific model suggests
A research team simulated Earth's climate history 2 million years ago. Their work suggests human ex…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Footprints In The Mud Of Time Indicate Early Humans Treaded European Shores
In case you are curious, let us tell you these foot sizes match the modern shoe sizes of 7 or 8 in …
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Early human ancestors started migrating around the world far earlier than scientists thought
"The initial dispersals out of Africa prior to 60,000 years ago were likely by small groups of fora…
Kevin Loria
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Archaeologists are fuming over a new study that claims the iconic early human ancestor Lucy died of falling from a tree
"I've worked in Eastern Africa for a long time and at fossil sites ... like the one where Lucy is f…
Erin Brodwin
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Sam Altman says his private home office includes a prehistoric piece of technology
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's private home office holds collections of personal objects from "the history…
Jaures Yip
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An 8.7 million-year-old ape skull suggests that human and ape ancestors may have evolved in Europe, not Africa
The partial skull of the ape, which is called an Anadoluvius turkae, was found in Cankiri, northern…
Alia Shoaib
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Neanderthals and humans may belong to the same species, say scientists. It could rewrite the history of our evolution.
As we begin to unpick the history of human and Neanderthal evolution, new scrutiny is being placed …
Marianne Guenot
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An ancient skull unlike any human ever seen is baffling scientists and could rewrite the story of our evolution
The skull, found in China in 2019, looks like an ancient modern human but has the chin of a Denisov…
Insider Inc.
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Cannibalistic Europeans likely ate their dead at funerals 15,000 years ago instead of burying them, study says
Scientists now think cannibalism was common among Magdalenian Upper Palaeolithic people, who lived …
Sebastian Cahill,Grace Eliza …
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Butchery marks on a fossilized bone suggest human ancestors ate each other, shocking researchers
Butchery marks on a fossilized bone belonging to a human ancestor suggest the flesh was removed for…
Jenny McGrath
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Climate change was rampant in the ancient past. So how did our primitive ancestors survive?
The Earth was throwing an increasing number of climate tantrums over the past three million years, …
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 'unusual' candidate who discovered that modern humans and Neanderthals had children together
Svante Pääbo's discovery of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA help us unpack what makes our own genes h…
Hilary Brueck
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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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Anthropologists have found the oldest skull of one our of earliest human ancestors. The 3.8-million-year-old fossil changes our understanding of human history.
They discovered an almost complete skull split into two major pieces - the upper jaw bone was separ…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient humans had sex and interbred with a mysterious group known as the Denisovans more than once, new research has found
We've known for years now that early humans interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans - other homi…
Kevin Loria
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A 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece is the oldest modern human discovered outside of Africa. It changes our timeline of human migration.
The oldest evidence of our modern human ancestors (Homo sapiens) dates back 315,000 years and was f…