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EUROPE'S ART SCENE BEGAN WITH NEANDERTHALS, NOT HOMO SAPIENS
Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia before disappearing about 40,000 years ago, around the time Homo sapiens moved into Europe from Africa... READ MORE›
INDIAN STONE TOOLS COULD PUSH BACK DATE HUMANS LEFT AFRICA
New findings in Tamil Nadu suggest modern humans may have left Africa much earlier than prior evidence suggests... READ MORE›
OLDEST HUMAN FOSSIL OUTSIDE AFRICA DISCOVERED
The new finding is also consistent with genetic studies, which have previously suggested the possibility that modern humans dispersed out of Africa around 220,000 years ago... READ MORE›
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HOMO NALEDI NEW SPECIES IN HUMAN LINEAGE IS FOUND IN SOUTH AFRICAN CAVE
This was the scientists concluded a large dark chamber for the dead of a previously unidentified species of the early human lineage Homo naledi... READ MORE›
AFRICAN FOSSILS PUT NEW SPIN ON HUMAN ORIGINS STORY
Theory holds that modern humans can trace a line back to a creature known as Homo erectus which lived more than a million years ago... READ MORE›
7.2-MILLION-YEAR-OLD PRE-HUMAN FOSSILS CHALLENGE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
Chimpanzees and bonobos are the nearest known relatives to humans, sharing 99 per cent of our DNA... READ MORE›
SKULLS OFFER NEW EVIDENCE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION IN CHINA
Li said that Xuchang 1 has features of early modern humans and was very likely a direct ancestor of modern northern Chinese... READ MORE›
FIRST HUMAN? JAWBONE FOSSIL IN ETHIOPIA SHEDS LIGHT ON HUMAN ORIGINS
The Ledi jaw helps narrow the evolutionary gap between Australopithecus and early Homo, said William Kimbel, director of Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins... READ MORE›
NEANDERTHALS 'THOROUGHLY' BUTCHERED THEIR OWN
In other words, for reasons that can only be guessed, Neanderthals of the not-too-distant past skinned one another, sliced into their bones, and even extracted bone marrow, reports UPI... READ MORE›
LESSONS FROM LATE FRENCH THINKER RENE GIRARD
Girard took a second giant step in the formulation of the mimetic theory with the publication of Violence and the Sacred in 1972... READ MORE›
9.7 MILLION-YEAR-OLD HUMAN TEETH FOSSIL COULD 'REWRITE HUMAN HISTORY'
The discovery of Lucy in 1974 had changed the timeline of human evolution, formed till that time... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS SAY THEY'VE FOUND THE WORLD'S OLDEST HATCHET
Now, the Australian archaeologists who scooped up this long-lost fragment say it is recasting the history of handled axes... READ MORE›
BONES IN SOUTH AFRICAN CAVE REVEAL NEW HUMAN SPECIES
Maybe it was some human relative other than naledi, he said... READ MORE›
'HOBBITS' PROBABLY BARBECUED MINI-ELEPHANTS ON THIS INDONESIAN ISLAND
Over the past decade, scientists have debated the existence of homo floresiensis -- affectionately titled hobbits by paleo-anthropologists... READ MORE›
HUMANS LEFT AFRICA SOONER THAN THOUGHT, ENTERED CHINA BEFORE EUROPE
Humans left Africa sooner than thought, entered China before Europe tooth study... READ MORE›
THE ANCIENT 'HOBBITS' OF INDONESIA WERE 600,000 YEARS OLDER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
New research says that the tiny, hobbit-like Homo floresiensis evolved much earlier, and were much tinier, than previously thought -- shedding new light on human evolution... READ MORE›
EARLY EUROPEANS INTERBRED WITH NEANDERTHALS STUDY
Were the Neanderthals wiped out by Homo sapiens the smart hominids who rose out of Africa and went on to conquer the planet?... READ MORE›
BONES FOUND IN GOYET, BELGIUM, PROVE NEANDERTHALS WERE CANNIBALS
But the reasons for the cannibalism remain a mystery, as to the extent to which the Neanderthals ate their dead... READ MORE›
JAWBONE FOSSIL IN ETHIOPIA SHEDS LIGHT ON HUMAN ORIGINS
A piece of jawbone with teeth attached, uncovered in Ethiopia, is the earliest known fossil of the genus Homo, to which humans belong, researchers said Wed... READ MORE›
BONE FIND SHOWS EXTINCT SPECIES OF EARLY HUMAN WALKED UPRIGHT, CLIMBED TREES, HANDY WITH TOOLS
Among the primitive human species grouped under the hominin umbrella including Homo erectus and Homo habilis it revealed an unprecedented mix of ape and modern man... READ MORE›
SHATTERING TIMELINE, STUDY PLACES HUMANS IN AMERICA 115,000 YEARS EARLIER THAN THOUGHT
Using stone hammers and anvils similar to those found, they broke open large elephant bones much in the way pre-historic humans might have done... READ MORE›
CANNIBALISM NOT SO NUTRITIOUS FOR EARLY HUMANS, STUDY FINDS
It seems unreasonable to think that early humans wouldn't have had as complex an attitude to cannibalism as we modern humans, Cole said... READ MORE›
FOSSILS OFFER CLUES TO HUMAN ANCESTORS' HEARING CAPABILITIES
Fossils offer clues to human ancestors hearing capabilities... READ MORE›
ANCIENT CHINESE TEETH COULD REWRITE HUMAN HISTORY
Most researchers believe humans only left Africa for the first time around 60 000 years ago... READ MORE›
BELGIAN NEANDERTHALS 'ATE EACH OTHER' AND MADE TOOLS FROM HUMAN BONES
Four bones from Goyet clearly suggest that Neanderthals also used the remains of their deceased as tools... READ MORE›
400,000-YEAR-OLD SKULL FOUND IN PORTUGAL CAVE MAY BE NEANDERTHAL ANCESTOR
MIAMI - The discovery of a 400,000-year-old half skull in Portugal has offered tantalizing hints about a possible ancestor of the Neanderthals, researchers said Monday... READ MORE›
METHOD TO EXTRACT ANCIENT HUMAN DNA FROM CAVE FLOOR DIRT FORMULATED
Scientists have figured out a way to extract tiny traces of ancient human DNA from dirt in caves that lack skeletal remains... READ MORE›
SOME TRAITS IN MODERN MAN MAY BE LINKED TO A PERSON'S NEANDERTHAL FOREFATHERS
Dannemann and his colleague, Janet Kelso, decided to look at the impact of Neanderthal DNA on non-disease traits in modern humans... READ MORE›
OLDEST KNOWN HUMAN MASSACRE FOUND IN KENYA, DATING TO 10,000 YEARS AGO
There is other fossil evidence of violence against even older individual humans, but none of clashes between groups... READ MORE›
FRENCH CAVE YIELDS RINGS NEANDERTHALS APPARENTLY MADE FROM STALAGMITES 176,500 YEARS AGO
Two mysterious stone rings found deep inside a French cave were probably built by Neanderthals about 176,500 years ago, proving that the ancient cousins of... READ MORE›
BRAZILIAN MONKEYS MAKE ROCK FLAKES SIMILAR TO EARLY STONE TOOLS ATTRIBUTED TO HUMANS
Call them knockoffs. Rock-smashing monkeys in Brazil make stone flakes that look a lot like tools made by our ancient ancestors. Scientists watched as Capu... READ MORE›
MOROCCAN FOSSILS SHAKE UP UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN ORIGINS
There is broad agreement among scientists that Homo sapiens originated in Africa... READ MORE›
MOROCCAN FOSSIL FIND REARRANGES HOMO SAPIENS FAMILY TREE
The previous oldest Homo sapiens remains ever found, in Ethiopia, were 195,000 years old... READ MORE›