Aug 05 2011
Where Humans Learned to Walk
An analysis of fossil soils indicates grasslands dominated East Africa for 7.4 million years.
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Aug 05 2011
Where Humans Learned to Walk
An analysis of fossil soils indicates grasslands dominated East Africa for 7.4 million years.
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Jun 01 2011
Early Human Dads Stayed at Home While Females Roamed
Although these early dads didn't travel, that doesn't mean they pitched in with raising the children.
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May 12 2011
Neanderthals’ Last Stand Possibly Found
A newly found prehistoric toolkit suggests Neanderthals may have lingered in the Ural Mountains as recently as 33,000 years ago.
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May 04 2011
Heidelberg Man Links Humans, Neanderthals
What was thought to be a cousin turns out to be a parent on the human evolutionary family tree.
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Apr 20 2011
Did Neanderthals Believe in an Afterlife?
A possible Neanderthal burial ground suggests that they practiced funeral rituals and possessed symbolic thought before modern humans.
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Apr 06 2011
Prehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog
A brain in near-perfect condition is found in a body-less skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago in England.
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Feb 28 2011
Prehistoric Dog Lived, Died Among Humans
Remains of the Husky-like dog, buried 7,000 years ago in Siberia, suggest people saw it as a thinking, social being.
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Feb 17 2011
Human Ancestors Have Identity Crisis
Fossils heralded as the remains of 4- to 7-million-year-old hominids might actually come from apes.
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Feb 07 2011
Are Shrinking Brains Making Us Smarter?
The average size of the human brain has decreased by about 10 percent over the last 30,000 years.
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