Kenyan Fossils Rekindle Debate over Early Human Diversity
August 9th, 2012 |
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If I had to pick the hottest topic in paleoanthropology right now, I’d say it’s the origin and early evolution of our genus, Homo. Researchers know quite a bit about our australopithecine predecessors (Lucy and her ilk) and about later phases of Homo’s evolution. But the dawn of our lineage is cloaked in mystery. One question [...]
Keep reading »Humans Tamed Fire by 1 Million Years Ago
April 2nd, 2012 |
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The ability to control fire marked a major milestone in human evolution, helping our ancestors stay warm in the cold, enhance the nutritional value of their food and keep predators at bay, among other uses. But exactly when humans mastered flame has proved difficult to establish. The oldest signs of fire in association with human [...]
Keep reading »Report from Former U.S. Marine Hints at Whereabouts of Long-Lost Peking Man Fossils
March 22nd, 2012 |
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In the 1930s archaeologists working at the site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing recovered an incredible trove of partial skulls and other bones representing some 40 individuals that would eventually be assigned to the early human species Homo erectus. The bones, which recent estimates put at around 770,000 years old, constitute the largest collection of H. [...]
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