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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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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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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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Our human ancestors were almost wiped out about 930,000 years ago, leaving just a tiny group of reproductive individuals, new study suggests
Almost a million years later, that tiny group of human ancestors has now grown to 8 billion people …
Katie Balevic
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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…
Aylin Woodward,Gabby Landsverk
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At most, just 7% of the human genome is unique to our species. We share most genes with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other ancestors.
A study suggests just 1.5% to 7% of the human genome is unique to our species. The remaining genes …
Aylin Woodward
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2 climbers crawled through an impossibly tiny cave and discovered a new human ancestor that defies everything scientists know about evolution
The cave where the bones were found lies in a region of South Africa known as the Cradle of Humanki…
Tanya Lewis
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Here's What Happened When Neanderthals And Ancient Humans Hooked Up 80,000 Years Ago
Modern humans, Neanderthals, and their sister lineage, Denisovans, descended from a common ancestor…
Dina Spector
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Yves Coppens, paleontologist who discovered 3.2 million-year-old 'Lucy' skeleton, dead at age 87
Yves Coppens helped discover the skeletal remains of "Lucy," which showed that human ancestors walk…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Three species of humans walked the earth at the same time, 2 million years ago
What is really exciting is that during the same time in history, there were three very different…
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'Dragon Man,' a mysterious new human species found in China, could be a closer relative of ours than Neanderthals
A species of human ancestor called Homo longi, or "Dragon Man," lived in China 146,000 years ago. I…
Aylin Woodward
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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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The early ancestors of humans were reduced to 1,300 individuals and came close to extinction, scientists say
The evolutionary bottleneck 900,000 years ago might have been caused by an extreme climate event, r…
Alia Shoaib
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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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A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists' picture of where humans came from, and when
Until the last few years, most scientists thought that the first members of our species, Homo sapie…
Aylin Woodward
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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…
Aylin Woodward
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A 160,000-year-old jaw from a human ancestor was found in a Tibetan cave. It might explain why Tibetans are able to live at high altitudes today.
Usually, when humans reach high altitudes - where oxygen levels are lower - our bodies make more he…
Aylin Woodward
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Every person alive today descended from a woman who lived in modern-day Botswana about 200,000 years ago, a new study finds
In a new study published in the journal Nature, scientists analyzed mitochondrial DNA - genetic inf…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient humans interbred with a mysterious, archaic population 700,000 years ago, a study found - it's the earliest known mating between different human species
Different human ancestor species seem to have mingled and mated far more than anthropologists previ…
Aylin Woodward
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A single genetic tweak caused human ancestors to lose their tails 25 million years ago — but it came at a cost
Researchers believe it could be behind a birth defect called spina bifida that still affects babies…