Neanderthal, Human Females and Ancient Coupling
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Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...
Stone tools found in Israel are at least 1.9 million years old, showing humans left Africa earlier than scientists once believed.
Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1.2 ...
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...
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A 700,000-year-old cave find that shattered the story of early humans
When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...
More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...
Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...
One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...
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A 700,000-year-old cave discovery that complicated everything we know about early humans
Archaeology and paleontology are filled with discoveries that solve one mystery while creating several more. One of the most puzzling finds involved ancient human remains discovered inside a cave ...
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