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You've seen it before. The chart of an ape walking on all fours, shedding its hair, standing upright, grabbing a spear and growing taller to become a modern human. This diagram called 'The March ...
The ways in which climate affected human evolution have been hotly debated ... from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC (see diagram). But by the 1990s, Potts had a new theory.
A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...
The Julurens — or “big head” people — are twisting scientists’ long-accepted understanding of human evolution. How humans came to be is largely understood to have been a linear process ...
Evolutionary diagrams usually connect humans and monkeys ... has contributed to the evolution of many, perhaps all, animals and that the process is ongoing, meaning that we may need to re-evaluate ...
Hinxton, UK, 2019. Robert Foley, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Cambridge, is giving the opening address at a three-day conference on human evolution. “What I’m pretty sure of is ...