Neanderthals' 'last rock refuge'
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Scientists say the Rock of Gibraltar may have been the last stronghold for Europe's Neanderthals.
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The earliest civilizations were not a   product of favorable conditions but rather a last resort in the   face of dramatic shifts in the weather, a climate scientist   said on Thursday.
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But did they have much to say? Neanderthals may have a reputation in popular culture as a lumbering, grunting people, but researchers have discovered that they did have a gene thought to play a key role in speech.â¦
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Scientists have found the remains of a creature that may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbing creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes
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The impact on physical anthropology of the diminutive hominid Homo floresiensis cannot be understated. The discovery in a rock shelter on the Indonesian island of Flores , announced in the
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The archaic human species that dominated Europe until the arrival of modern humans some 45,000 years ago possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt nearly 100 million years earlier, scientists report on Wednesday.
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Scientists reconstruct a chunk of DNA from the genome of a Neanderthal man who lived 38,000 years ago.
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Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old will be returned to southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes 11 years after they were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest.
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Bones found at a prehistoric burial site indicate they belonged to victims of an Neolithic Age massacre, say scientists.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  An amazing new tool for dating ancient remains, a luminescence geochronology laboratory, has been installed at Utah State University.
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BARCELONA - A fossilized ape that was adept at climbing trees and stood upright was the last probable ancestor to great apes, including humans, researchers said Thursday.
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The last probable common ancestor to humans and great apes had a body like an ape, fingers like a chimp and the upright posture of humans, according to researchers who unearthed a fossil of the animal in Spain.
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Some Neanderthals probably had red hair much like modern-day humans, a DNA study shows.
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New findings suggest that some Neanderthals were fair-skinned and redheaded.
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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.