early humans
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A Toddler Who Lived 3 Million Years Ago Could Walk Upright And Capably Climb Trees
A re-analysis of a three-million-year-old fossil suggests Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominid, had children who were as capable on two feet as they were in the trees — an important discovery that’s shedding new light on this critical stage in hominid evolution.
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Stunning Discovery Shows Early Humans Were Hunting Rhinos In The Philippines Over 700,000 Years Ago
Our species, Homo sapiens, weren’t the first humans to leave Africa – not by a long shot. The remarkable discovery of a 709,000-year-old butchered rhino fossil in the Philippines shows that so-called archaic humans were romping around the islands of southeast Asia a full 400,000 years before our species even existed.
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88,000-Year-Old Middle Finger Found In Saudi Arabia Could Rewrite Human History
It’s just a lone, bony middle finger, but the scientists who found it say it’s the oldest directly dated fossil of our species to ever be found outside of Africa and the Levant, a region that today comprises Israel, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. But the new discovery is not without its critics, who say older…
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Scientists Who Doubt Neanderthal Art Must Reckon With New Evidence From These Sweet Cave Paintings
Back in 2012, archaeologists concluded that a series of cave paintings in Spain were created by Neanderthals, not early humans as was previously assumed. Critics complained about the dating method used, and more contentiously, claimed that only modern humans had the capacity for symbolic thought. Now, using an updated dating technique, scientists have shown yet…