Ancient Chimps May Have Used Hammers
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID  WASHINGTON - Chimpanzees may have been using stone "hammers" as long as 4,300 years ago.
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Big evolutionary insights sometimes come in little packages. Witness the startling discovery, in a cave on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, of the partial skeleton of a half-size Homo species that
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WASHINGTON: Based on recent fossil evidences, American scientists have claimed that a chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two legs in Kenya&#39;s Tugen Hills over six million years ago, nearly three million years earlier than currently believed.
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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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By DEEPTI HAJELA  NEW YORK - 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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long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man - was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today as humans.
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MONKEYS use tools to dig up roots, crack seeds and dig insects from holes in trees, scientists have found, contradicting the traditional idea that humans are nature&#39;s only tool-makers.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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One of man's closest relatives, the pygmy chimpanzee, may be much closer to extinction than previously thought, a conservation group said Thursday.
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Modern-day raptors can kill and eat primates more than twice the birds' body weight, suggesting that ancient eagles could have hunted early humans.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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The Clovis people, known for their distinctive spear points, likely were not the first humans in the Americas, according to research placing their presence as more recent than previously believed.
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The remains of a primate that could be the ancestor of humans and all the great apes is discovered.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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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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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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The latest 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.