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From 'Lucy' to the 'Hobbits': The most famous fossils of human relativesCountdown Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.
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How did people clean themselves before soap was invented?Soap has a pretty simple formula and a long history.
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1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from Siberia, linguist arguesThe languages of the earliest Americans evolved in 4 waves, according to one expert.
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Early humans lived on 'Persian plateau' for 20,000 years after leaving Africa, study suggestsAfter early humans traveled out of Africa 70,000 years ago, they had a "hub" on the so-called Persian plateau, a new study suggests.
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'Zeus made night from mid-day': Terror and wonder in ancient accounts of solar eclipsesFor millennia, solar eclipses like the upcoming one on April 8 have inspired awe, wonder and fear. Here are some of the most intriguing accounts of solar eclipses from ancient Greece to the Mayan empire.
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Eating meat may not have 'made us human,' contrary to popular theoryMeat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists.
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Facial reconstructions help the past come alive. But are they accurate?Feature DNA analysis is changing the science of facial reconstructions and making them more lifelike than ever before.
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Unknown 'anatomically modern human lineage' discovered from 40,000-year-old hip boneFossil found in France is not quite modern human and not quite Neanderthal.
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Strange, 300,000-year-old jawbone unearthed in China may come from vanished human lineageFragments of a jaw bone unearthed in China have a mosaic of features that are present in both modern and archaic humans, making it difficult to place on the human evolutionary tree.
