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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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Humans first arrived in Europe 1.3 million years ago out of Africa ...
Jul 16, 2024 ... Human remains found at the Orce sites in Spain have been re-dated, making them the oldest in Europe at around 1.3 million years.
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Hominins may have first appeared in Europe instead of Africa - Earth ...
Apr 19, 2019 ... The research suggests that it was here when our earliest human ancestors appeared, and not in Africa.
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Scientists identify missing link between apes and early humans ...
Jan 19, 2019 ... ... human family tree that helps explain the evolution of upright apes into early humans ... It was once thought that a fossil species a million years ...
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How early humans learned to walk - Earth.com
Jan 29, 2024 ... However, the variability in living ape locomotion and gaps in the fossil record have hindered a complete understanding of human bipedalism's ...
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Ancient teeth offer intriguing theory of human relative - Earth.com
Apr 7, 2019 ... Anthropologists found four ancient teeth in a cave in Yanhui, China that have much more mysterious origins than first thought.
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Human ancestors were nocturnal, study confirms - Earth.com
Apr 21, 2017 ... “This method is like using the genome as a fossil record, and with it we've shown when genes involved in night vision appear,” Hadly said. “It's ...
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Earliest humans were bipedal, and could swing through trees - Earth ...
Aug 25, 2022 ... This hominin was first described in 2001, when the Franco-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) discovered the fossils of several ...
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Did humans first evolve in Europe? Ape skull sparks new debate ...
Sep 5, 2023 ... This new evidence supports the hypothesis that hominins originated in Europe and dispersed into Africa along with many other mammals between nine and seven ...
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Humans arrived in South America much earlier than we thought ...
Jul 19, 2024 ... Radiocarbon dating tags the fossils at around 21,000 years old, nearly 6,000 years older than other known archaeological evidence in southern ...
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