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Fossil hotspots may skew our view of human evolution - Earth.com
Aug 24, 2024 ... In a new study, experts reveal the extent to which fossil hotspots have biased our understanding of human evolution.
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How did humans get big brains? Fossil teeth reveal new clues ...
5 hours ago ... Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.
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Human-ape split occurred in Europe, not Africa - Earth.com
May 22, 2017 ... ... human history. The researchers analyzed the two known specimens of the fossil hominid Graecopithecus freybergi: a lower jaw from Greece and ...
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12 million-year-old human ancestor, Pierolapithecus, brought to life ...
Oct 29, 2023 ... Pierolapithecus catalaunicus · Great ape and human evolution · Evolutionary connections · Pierolapithecus biology · Fragmented fossil record · What ...
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Pierolapithecus: Recreating the face of an ancient human ancestor ...
Sep 24, 2024 ... Scientists have reconstructed the face of an ancient ape species called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, part of human and great ape evolution.
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Ancient human ancestors actually did live with dinosaurs, according ...
Jul 2, 2023 ... Ancient human ancestors actually did live with dinosaurs, according to stunning new research ... An astonishing new study concludes that human ...
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Fossils of previously unknown human ancestor discovered in China ...
Aug 14, 2023 ... Fossils of previously unknown human ancestor discovered in China ... A team of researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently ...
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Tiny great ape species discovered that lived 11 million years ago ...
Jun 12, 2024 ... Great apes and the evolution of European ecosystems. This find marks the first known instance of hominid syntopy in Europe's fossil record. It ...
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Human evolution was shaped by interspecies competition - Earth.com
Apr 19, 2024 ... van Holstein created a new database which tracked each time an example of a species was found and dated in the hominin fossil record – including ...
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A hobbit-like human ancestor may still be roaming in Indonesia ...
Apr 28, 2022 ... The discovery of this early hominid's fossils in 2003 in the Liang Bua cave in Flores has shattered long-held beliefs that the Neanderthals were ...
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