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Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history
Homo sapien bones in a German cave prove early humans occupied Europe 47,500 years ago alongside Ne…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Oldest human fossils from eastern Africa are about 30,000 years older than scientists thought
The bones of ancient Homo sapiens, unearthed in Ethiopia, were buried beneath a layer of volcanic a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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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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'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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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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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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13 discoveries in the last year have fundamentally altered our understanding of human history
One analysis revealed that the earliest known example of interbreeding between different human popu…
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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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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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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Fossils unearthed in China reveal a new species of giant prehistoric rhino - the largest land mammal to ever walk the Earth
Giant rhinos were roughly the size of six elephants and they moved back and forth across Asia as th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Ancient plaque on 50,000-year-old Neanderthal teeth reveal the real 'paleo diet'
Thanks to recent advances in gene-sequencing technology, Dobney and his research team revealed that…
Erin Brodwin
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50,000-year old plaque on ancient teeth reveals what Neanderthals really ate
Thanks to recent advances in gene-sequencing technology, Dobney and his research team revealed that…
Erin Brodwin
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What scientists found deep inside a cave challenges ideas of human evolution
Their feet were incredibly similar to those of modern humans, says Harcourt-Smith, who led the stud…