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An ancient finger bone found in Saudi Arabia is now the earliest evidence of humans outside of Africa - and it could change our understanding of human history
"Tracing the evolution and geographic dispersal of the human lineage is rather like connecting piti…
Kevin Loria
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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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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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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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An ancient tooth found in a cave proves an extinct species of archaic humans lived in southeast Asia over 130,000 years ago
Scientists were looking at how humans in southeast Asia today have some genes of an ancient human s…
Marianne Guenot
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Sorry, 'The Last of Us' fans — cannibalism just isn't that nutritious, according to a human evolution researcher
Eating other humans isn't an efficient source of calories, especially post-apocalypse, says a resea…
Gabby Landsverk
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The first dogs evolved from wolves in Asia — and maybe the Middle East — a study of ice age DNA suggests
Ancient wolf DNA spanning the last 100,000 years, points to the moment — possibly two moments — whe…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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Researchers have found the remains of a teenager that died 7,200 years ago, revealing a group of humans previously unknown to science
The young woman was likely part of the prehistoric Toleans, which mysteriously disappeared 1,500 ye…
Marianne Guenot
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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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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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Scientists may have discovered a new human relative. It lived on a tiny island in the Philippines at the same time as Homo Sapiens.
According to Detroit, 15 years ago, scientists' conception of human evolution in Asia was very simp…
Aylin Woodward
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A Swedish scientist suggested the climate crisis could lead people to consider eating human flesh. It's not the first time a scientist has suggested the idea.
For Dawkins and Söderlund, cannibalism could be a way to prepare for a future in which supplies of …
Aria Bendix
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Humans arrived in North America at least 15,000 years earlier than we thought, discoveries show — which suggests they came by boat
When and how the first people arrived in North America is up for debate. New studies suggest the co…
Aylin Woodward
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300,000-year-old skulls that look shockingly like us could rewrite the human origin story
A bit more digging revealed a nearly-complete skull, which the miners turned over to their field do…
Erin Brodwin
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Why Men's Noses Are Bigger Than Women's
The study, recently published in published in the Journal of Physical Anthropology, observed the fa…
Dina Spector
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The Surprising Reason Men Have Bigger Noses Than Women
Researchers previously suggested that nose size is influenced by body mass, an indication of differ…
Dina Spector
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23andMe has discovered hundreds of genetic links to traits, and much more is coming
Since launching in 2006, 23andMe has collected and analyzed DNA samples from 1.2-million customers,…