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Where’s the Beef? Early Humans Took It
When human ancestors began scavenging for meat regularly on the open plains of Africa about 2.5 million years ago,...
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Eating Meat Helped Early Humans Reproduce, Population Spread
If early humans had been vegans we might all still be living in caves, Swedish researchers suggested in an...
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Cooperating Mini-Brains Show How Intelligence Evolved
Working together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer simulation. When programmed to navigate challenging cooperative tasks,...
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New Evidence of Earliest Use of Fire
Scientists say they have new evidence that our ancestors were using fire as early as a million years ago....
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Bostrum: We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction
Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth....
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Neanderthals Were Dying Out Before Humans Arrived
Neanderthals in Western Europe started disappearing long before Homo sapiens showed up, suggesting that cold weather, and not cold-hearted...
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Ancient Human Ancestor Had Feet Like an Ape
Fossil foot hints that tree-dwellers lived alongside species built for walking.
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Possible New Lead in Peking Man Fossils Mystery
The memories of a World War II-era Marine have renewed hopes of solving one of the greatest archaeological mysteries...
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Humans Hunted Australia’s Giant Beasts to Extinction
Humans hunted Australia’s giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded....
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Possible New Human Species Unearthed in China
Scientists in China have found what may be a new species of human. Fossils show a group of people...