Can humans ever understand how animals think?
A flood of new research is overturning old assumptions about what animal minds are and aren’t capable of – and changing how ...
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The Case of the Missing Ancestor
What defining changes in the genetic code took place after we separated from our most recent ancestor? Looking at the places where all living humans share a novel genetic signature but the ...
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4.4 million-year-old human ancestor is found
That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified ... discoveries provide important evidence in the search for human origins, but points out Walker, "As with so many scientific ...
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Lucy, our early human ancestor, may have died after falling from a tree
A new study suggests that Lucy, the ape-like human ancestor, died after a fatal fall more than 3 million years ago. By Maria Gallucci on August 29, 2016 Share on Facebook (opens in a new window ...
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Paleontologists Feud Over Potential Human Ancestor
Science abounds with heated debates; when it comes to human origins, that’s also the case. More Like This The Midwestern State Where Abundant Fossils Can Be Found ...
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2 Human Ancestors Probably Co-Existed
Mar. 23 -- WEDNESDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A fragment of upper jaw and a skull found in Africa are helping rewrite the textbook on how mankind came to be millions of years ago. Gone is the ...
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Humans, Their Ancestors and Relatives (IMAGE)
A set of new studies from the University of Utah and elsewhere found that human ancestors and relatives started eating an increasingly grassy diet 3.5 million years ago. The studies included ...
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Human ancestors preferred mosaic landscapes and high ecosystem diversity
How early human species have adapted to the intensification of climate extremes, ice ages, and large-scale shifts in landscapes and vegetation remains elusive. Did our ancestors adjust to local ...
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Human evolution
Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.
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Human ancestors preferred mosaic landscapes and high ecosystem diversity
A new study finds that early human species adapted to mosaic landscapes and diverse food resources, which would have increased our ancestor's resilience to past shifts in climate. A new study ...
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Human ancestors preferred mosaic landscapes and high ecosystem diversity, study finds
How early human species have adapted to the intensification of climate extremes, ice ages, and large-scale shifts in landscapes and vegetation remains elusive. Did our ancestors adjust to local ...