Lost in a Million-Year Gap, Solid Clues to Human Origins
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The origin of our own genus Homo is one of the most intriguing and intractable mysteries in human evolution.
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Anthropologists are not often giddy with excitement, but the unearthing of the skeleton of a meter-tall female who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18,000 years ago has them whooping with delight the finding of another piece of the puzzle of the
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The archaic human species possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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Two new studies throw some doubt into the conventional wisdom of what the Earth was like when dinosaurs roamed it
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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The archaic human species that dominated Europe until the arrival of modern humans some 45,000 years ago possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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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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Scientists have discovered fossils of an ancient, tiny species of human in an isolated part of Indonesia. They are bones from what they say is a smaller version of the now extinct immediate ancestor to modern humans.
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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.
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THE DISCOVERY: The bones of a human dwarf species marooned on the remote Indonesian island of Flores between 95,000 and 12,000 years ago while modern humans rapidly developed elsewhere.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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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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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea - a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet.
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In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species, a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical