New Exhibit Details Human Origins
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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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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Description: Scientists discover fossils of a new species of early human on the Indonesian island of Flores. Like the Neanderthals, it is an alternate human line that disappeared.
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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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&quot;Dating the beginnings of bipedalism is very important in the human story because, for many experts, it would mark a clear divergence from the ancestral/ape pattern and show that the human lineage had really begun,&quot; said Chris Stringer, director of the
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An exhibit of dissected and flayed corpses, on display for the first time in the United States, attracts a steady stream of visitors curious to see what humans really look like under the skin. Randy Dotinga reports from Los Angeles.
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In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists have announced they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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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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Two skulls originally found in 1967 are shown to be about 196,000 years old, making them the oldest modern human remains known to science.
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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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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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Complex skull operations were being performed as early as 960AD, remains of a body found at an archaeological dig show.
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A Finnish research team has made a remarkable archaeological find linked to a prehistoric culture which predates the Incas.
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A rapid technique for isolating DNA in hair provides a new route to study the genetics of extinct creatures.
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LONDON - Modern humans began dominating the world far earlier than thought, according to anthropologists who say they&#39;ve discovered fossils of a new human dwarf species.
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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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A husband-and-wife anthropologist team who have spent decades studying early humans' skill in crafting stone tools have parlayed their expertise into an Indiana University institute devoted to prehistoric human culture.