The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ancestor in Africa and not from ...
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Apr 21, 2017
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Perhaps the bias against left-handers dates back much further than we thought.
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Oct 20, 2016
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When a skeleton of the so-called 'Hobbit' - scientific name Homo floresiensis - was unearthed in Indonesia in 2003 it would go on to cause a major furor in anthropological circles like few others before it.
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Apr 5, 2016
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Political and economic pundits constantly remind us that this is the 'Asian Century', and it's shaping up to be that way also for human origins science.
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Feb 8, 2016
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Among the many things that science is, it is a system of categorization. The human fossil record—file under genus, Homo; species, sapiens—is rather poorly categorized, contends the University of Pittsburgh's Jeffrey Schwartz, ...
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Aug 28, 2015
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It may not have quite have the same wow factor as a skull, but the discovery of a pinkie bone that is more than 1.8 million years old may help us solve the puzzle of stone-tool use among our early ancestors. The bone, which ...
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Aug 19, 2015
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A tiny, 1.85 million-year-old bone from the little finger of a human ancestor unearthed in East Africa has revealed the oldest "modern" hand ever found, scientists reported Tuesday.
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Aug 18, 2015
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More than 145 years ago, Charles Darwin argued that Africa was the continent from which humans evolved in prehistory. We now know he was right.
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Jun 15, 2015
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2015 has already been an amazing year for human evolution science.
Archaeology
Apr 24, 2015
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There's plenty of excitement this month amid reports that scientists had identified the "dawn of humankind" in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia.
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Mar 13, 2015
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