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Neanderthals, the stocky kin of modern humans, were far more widespread geographically than previously thought, with some trekking into southern Siberia before vanishing about 30,000 years ago, scientists said on Monday. Researchers led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evoluti...
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Scientists have identified a major climate crisis that struck Africa about 70,000 years ago and which may have changed the course of human history.
Tanganyika
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World Population
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The Earth now home to nearly 6.5 billion souls, and more than half of them live in just six countries, according to a report from the French Institute for Demographic Studies (IFED).
Out of every 100 people living in the world, 61 live in Asia, 14 in Africa, 11 in Europe, 9 in Latin America, 5 in North...
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The Incredible Human Journey
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In the ultimate travel story, Dr Alice Roberts (presenter of Coast and Don't Die Young) from the University of Bristol's Department of Anatomy, crosses the globe to find out how our ancestors colonised the planet. In 'The Incredible Human Journey', a new BBC 2 series airing this Sunday [10 May], she...
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Human remains found in a 1,400-year-old Chinese tomb belonged to a man of European origin, DNA evidence shows. Chinese scientists who analysed the DNA of the remains say the man, named Yu Hong, belonged to one of the oldest genetic groups from western Eurasia. [url=http://www.inform.kz/showart...
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Homo erectus
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Discovery of the most intact female pelvis of Homo erectus may cause scientists to re-evaluate how early humans evolved to successfully birth larger-brained babies. A reconstruction of the 1.2 million-year-old pelvis discovered in 2001 in the Gona Study Area at Afar, Ethiopia, that has led rese...
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Human-Like Walking is Ancient Meet "Lucy's" Great-Grandfather. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie led an international team that discovered and analysed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Eth...
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Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. The ancient humans have been dubbed "Denisovans" after the caves in Siberia where their remains w...
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Australopithecus sediba May Have Paved the Way for Homo Researchers have revealed new details about the brain, pelvis, hands, and feet of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin that existed around the same time early Homo species first began to appear on Earth. The new Au. sediba findings,...
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Teeth and jaw are from 'earliest Europeans' They may be yellowed and worn but these ancient teeth and jaw fragment have something very revealing to say about how modern humans conquered the globe. The specimens, unearthed in Italy and the UK, have just been confirmed as the earliest known remains of...
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Pre-historic human skeleton discovered in Sri Lanka Archaeology Department of Sri Lanka has found a skeleton of a pre-historic man from the Fa-Hien cave archaeological site in Pahiyangala of Kalutara district. The skeleton is believed to be about 12,000 years old and belonged to the Homo sapien...
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Many human 'prototypes' coexisted in Africa Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say. The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa. The research adds to a growing body of evidence that...
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