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Proponents of the Multiregional Evolution model suggest that hominin ... spread rapidly among existing populations of anatomically modern humans perhaps 50,000 years ago. The alternative view ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution ... varied in their anatomy and ecology ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body plan inherited from distant ancestors, giving us an efficient and graceful gait and a range of painful problems from ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

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Researchers found evidence that the joints evolved as the species became active predators with jaws and mobile skeletons.

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage ... Potau, from the Human Anatomy and Embryology ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found ...