Tooth scan reveals Neanderthal mobility
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Analysis of a 40,000-year-old tooth found in southern Greece suggests Neanderthals were more mobile than once thought, paleontologists said Friday.
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The archaic human species possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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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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In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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A study challenges a theory that abrupt and catastrophic climate change extinguished the last Neanderthals.
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BYBLOS, Lebanon  - A Lebanese scientist following the genetic footprint of the ancient Phoenicians says he has traced their modern-day descendants, but stumbled into an old controversy about identity in his country.
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Scientists have found fossilised remains of what could be the last common ancestor to all the great apes living today. It will give scientists vital clues in charting the course of primate and, ultimately, human evolution.
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The ancestors of humans began walking upright while they were still living in trees, a theory suggests.
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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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A 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of the  earliest child ever found shows the ancient ancestor of modern  humans walked upright but may also have climbed trees,  scientists said on Wednesday.
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The findings are considered a significant step toward understanding who were some of the first ancestors to migrate out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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A four-inch core sample is a chapter of ancient history in which a Neanderthal amoeba or a worm can thicken the plot for researchers.
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Researchers find a cache of fossils in Ethiopia belonging to early human ancestors.
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One of the most startling discoveries in the study of human origins -- the uncovering of a vanished species of dwarf proto-humans who inhabited a Pacific island just 18,000 years ago -- is being reported in today&#39;s issue of the journal Nature.
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PHILADELPHIA _ Dinosaur hunters of the world, grab your picks and hammers!   You've barely scratched the surface, according to a study published this weekday by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.
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The ability of early human ancestors to run long distances may have influenced the transition to today's body form, researchers report.