Human ancestor had mix of primitive, modern traits
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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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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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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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Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances - perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africaâs vast savannah â-nd the ability to run shaped our anatomy, making us look like we do today.
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Lice genes have been a head-scratcher for experts in human origins who now suspect that we humans picked up some parasites from our more primitive ancestors.
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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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New findings suggest that some Neanderthals were fair-skinned and redheaded.
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Some Neanderthals may have had fair skin and red hair, giving them an appearance resembling modern Europeans, an international team of researchers said on Thursday.
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The archaic human species possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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Some Neanderthals probably had red hair much like modern-day humans, a DNA study shows.
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The emergence of modern humans may be tied to the evolution of running, a new study suggests, a new study suggests.
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Fossils of an ape species from about 13 million years ago may have been the last common ancestor of great apes, including humans.
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A new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world were discovered by scientists.
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The discovery suggests that the care that crocodiles, birds, and other modern descendents of archosaurs give to their young may be an ancestral characteristic.
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The discovery of a nearly intact child's skeleton belonging to the earliest-known human ancestor suggests a creature that walked upright like a man but could swing through the trees like an ape.
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WASHINGTON - A chimp-sized human ancestor walked upright 6 million years ago, far earlier than anyone had been able to show before, researchers report.
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A new study of the skeleton of a one-meter-high race of âhobbitsâ that lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of humanâand that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been torturous indeed.