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Last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals possibly found in Casablanca, MoroccoA collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.
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'More Neanderthal than human': How DNA from our long-lost ancestors affects our health todayNeanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how.
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10 things we learned about Neanderthals in 2025Findings about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.
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1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolutionA never-before-seen Homo erectus face reveals a complex picture of early human evolution.
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10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2025Findings about our human ancestors continue to surprise us, especially those from 2025.
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We now know much more about how our ancestor 'Lucy' lived — and diedFifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.
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'Biological time capsules': How DNA from cave dirt is revealing clues about early humans and NeanderthalsDNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows.
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Science history: Anthropologist sees the face of the 'Taung Child' — and proves that Africa was the cradle of humanity — Dec. 23, 1924Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.
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Scientists claim 'Lucy' may not be our direct ancestor after all, stoking fierce debateRecent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.
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