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The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago. But one professor thinks the apelike ...
Neanderthals and modern humans descended from a common African ancestor. Some of these ancestors left Africa for Eurasia, and they evolved into Neanderthals roughly 500,000 years ago. Most of our ...
I’m pretty sure not more than three of my ancestors ventured that far east in their lifetime ... on Nairobi’s Kenneth Matiba Road to board a Meru-bound matatu. I was impressed by the low human traffic ...
Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.
Assuming our ancestors could eat above a subsistence level, they probably had an array of healthier, certainly fresher foods than we eat today. Of course, humans did learn how to preserve foods ...
A new study has shed light on the running abilities of Australopithecus afarensis, our 3.2-million-year-old ancestor famously ... inefficient compared to modern humans, highlighting evolutionary ...