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10,000-year-old genomes rewrite human evolution

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

In a 400,000-year-old hearth, hints of humans taming fire earlier than thought

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...
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Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...
CNN

Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...
The Conversation

Fun with fossils: South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...