1.4-million-year-old bones deepen mystery of who reached Europe first
Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...
1.4-Million-Year-Old Skull Fragments Linked to Mystery Human Ancestor
The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...
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What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million ...
Neanderthals and Early Humans Hung Out Way More Than We Thought, Study Finds
The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...
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A Facial Fragment of Homo affinis erectus Found in Atapuerca Is the Oldest “Human Face” in Western Europe
The Sima del Elefante site, in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain), has once again been the scene of an extraordinary discovery. A team of researchers has identified a human facial fragment dated ...
First burials: Compelling evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange
The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...
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World’s Oldest Human Burials Show Neanderthals And Homo Sapiens Shared Culture And Technology
Around 100,000 years ago, a group of Homo sapiens-like humans buried five of their dead at Timshenet cave, along with grave ...
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Unearthing Pink: A New Player in Europe's Human Evolution
Scientists discovered ancient facial fossils in Spain that may represent a new human species, reshaping early European ...
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Atapuerca rewrites the history of Europe’s first inhabitants
IPHES-CERCA leads a study published in Nature on ‘Pink,’ a facial fragment discovered in Sima del Elefante. This fossil has ...
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Neanderthals, homo sapiens, and a needless racial row – Andrew Kenny
It began when Nhlamulo “Nota” Baloyi made the following remarks about white people: “They are inferior species (compared) to ...
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Evidence Discovered That Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Coexisted, Sharing Technology, Customs, and Funerary Rituals 110,000 Years Ago
A recent archaeological discovery in Tinshemet Cave, located in central Israel, has provided compelling evidence that ...
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Why it’s so hard to tell when Homo sapiens became a distinct species
Today, there are more than eight billion of us. Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down.