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1.8 million-year-old human jawbone discovered in Republic of Georgia — and it may be earliest evidence yet of Homo erectusA new fossil find in the Republic of Georgia is expanding our understanding of the earliest humans to leave Africa.
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80,000-year-old stones in Uzbekistan may be the world's oldest arrowheads — and they might have been made by NeanderthalsSmall stone points discovered in Uzbekistan may be the earliest evidence of arrowhead technology.
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Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study findsResearchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals.
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The first Americans had Denisovan DNA. And it may have helped them survive.People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans.
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Gene that differs between humans and Neanderthals could shed light on the species' disappearance, mouse study suggestsA gene called ADSL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished.
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What was the first human species?Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record?
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2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveal ancient human relatives were 'forward planning' 600,000 years earlier than thoughtHundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.
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A braided stream, not a family tree: How new evidence upends our understanding of how humans evolvedEvidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.
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'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our speciesAs experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.
