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Fossils discovered in Morocco could shed new light on human evolution
© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...
Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.
In addition to Ardi, a possible direct ancestor, it is possible here to find hominid fossils from as recently as 160,000 years ago—an early Homo sapiens like us—all the way back to Ardipithecus ...
JCU's Professor Paul Dirks and Associate Professor Eric Roberts have spent the past few years analysing fossils of the hominid Homo naledi, found deep in a cave system in South Africa in 2013. The ...
Fossil and genetic evidence indicates our immediate human ancestors evolved in Africa beginning about two million years ago ...
Foreword / J. Francis Thackeray -- 1. African genesis : an evolving paradigm / Sally C. Reynolds ; 2. Academic genealogy / Peter S. Ungar and Phillip V. Tobias -- pt. 1. In search of origins : ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Brown plastic cast cranium of Olduvai ...
The team proposed in the journal Nature in 1994 that the fossils—now known as Ardipithecus ramidus —represented the “long-sought potential root species for the Hominidae,” meaning that the fossils ...
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