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How Infectious Disease May Have Shaped Human Origins
Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps five to...
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Earliest Wall Art Is Found in France
A massive block of limestone in France contains what scientists believe are the earliest known engravings of wall art...
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Unknown Ancient Language Found on Clay Tablet
Cambridge archaeologists working in Turkey have found the evidence for a previously unknown ancient language which dates back more...
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Peopling the Planet
Not long ago, the story was simple. A vanguard of modern humans left their African birthplace 50,000–60,000 years ago...
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Refugees From the Ice Age: How Was Europe Repopulated?
Scientists have used DNA analysis to gain important new insights into how human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice...
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Largest Known Croc Likely Ate Early Man
The largest known crocodile was big enough to swallow a human being and likely terrorized our ancestors two to...
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A Duplicated Gene Shaped Human Brain Evolution
Two groups of researchers, led by Evan Eichler and Franck Polleux, have found that humans, alone among all animals,...
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Study Shows Humans Are Still Evolving
Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest laws continue to shape human evolution in the modern age, research has shown.
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Orangutans Harbor Ancient Primate Alu
Alu elements infiltrated the ancestral primate genome about 65 million years ago. Once gained an Alu element is rarely...