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Handier than homo habilis?

Human Evolution

The versatile hand of Australopithecus sediba makes a better candidate for an early tool-making hominin than the hand of Homo habilis

Hand bones from…

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Early hominin landscape use

Human Evolution

Approx. 3 million years ago, females rather than males moved from the groups they were born in to new social groups.

So far ranging and residence…

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The brains of Neanderthals and modern humans developed differently

Human Evolution

Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have documented species differences in the pattern of brain…

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„Fish on the Menu“

Human Evolution

The isotopic analysis of a bone from one of the earliest modern humans in Asia, the 40,000 year old skeleton from Tianyuan Cave in the Zhoukoudian…

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Spectacular discovery of first-ever Dutch Neanderthal, the first fossil hominin ever yielded by a sub-marine site

Human Evolution

Fossil skull fragment unveiled by Minister Plasterk (The Netherlands) in National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden

For the first time ever, a fossil…

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"You will give birth in pain": Neanderthals too

Human Evolution

The virtual reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman’s birth canal reveals insights into the evolution of human child birth.

Researchers from the…

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