Pigs clue to early human colonies
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A study of the DNA of wild and domestic pigs sheds light on human migration to the Pacific, say researchers.
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.
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The scientific world has just been given an amazing new insight into the complexities of human evolution. A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists has discovered fossils of a new human
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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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If walking upright first set early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins, it may have been their eventual ability to run long distances with a springing step over the African savanna
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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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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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Archaeologists say they have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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The findings about Peru are evidence that some farming developed in parts of the Americas nearly as early as in the Middle East, considered the birthplace of agriculture.
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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 miniature people found to have lived on an Indonesian island until 13,000 years ago have shaken up views of the human past.
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Archaeologists in Ecuador find that chillies were used in cooking more than 6,000 years ago.
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See photos of "Lucy's baby" and other Australopithecus afarensis fossils that represent some of the earliest human ancestors known.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
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A new DNA analysis indicates that the parasites  accompanied their human hosts in the original peopling of the Americas, probably as early as 15,000 years ago.
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with