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Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...

Maybe they helped each other. Maybe they ran from each other. Maybe they ignored each other. It’s long been known that ...

The bones they found in the sand were a clue that something more was buried beneath the surface. When a team of excavators in ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

They found that just like humans, the apes’ attention moved back and forth between agent and patient, which implies that they ...

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close to that of the great apes, or dental development close to that of modern humans. When we obtained the first results, we couldn't believe what we saw, because it was something different that ...