We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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‘Dietary fingerprints’ show our early ancestors dined mostly on plant-based foods
For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
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Discovery: These human ancestors walked upright over 2 million years ago
Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...
When did our ancestors start to eat meat regularly? Fossilised teeth get us closer to the answer
Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human ...
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Newly Found Bones Change What We Know About Paranthropus robustus
The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...
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Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
Tool use is a storied tradition among hominins. Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago. Bone tools appear ...
Human ancestors making 'bone tech' 1.5 million years ago, say scientists
Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said Wednesday.
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Human ancestors made ‘bone tech’ 1.5m years ago, say scientists
Ancient humans — also called hominins — such as the robust Australopithecus are known to have used fragments of bones to dig up tubers from termite mounds. Even today our closest living ...