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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Humans are fundamentally technological creatures. We depend on the manufacture and use of tools for our survival to a degree qualitatively greater than any other species. Therefore, an understanding ...
Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This groundbreaking research has the potential to reshape our understanding of early ...
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Ethiopian Homo erectus skull discovery rewrites human evolution timeline
What did researchers find? A 1.6-to-1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia combines features from two different stages of ...
The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made from ...
An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...
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