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Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWhat does it mean to be human? For a long time, the answer seemed clear. Our species, Homo sapiens —...
10 things we learned about our human ancestors in 2023
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA picture of Skulls of Ancient Humans at the Natural History Museum of Oslo. Humans are everywhere...
Scientists uncover devastating event that may have led to humanity’s doom 900,000 years ago
The Independent via Yahoo News· 10 months agoEarly human ancestors went through a prolonged period of very low population of only about 1,000...
An 'ancestral bottleneck' took out nearly 99 percent of the human population 800,000 years ago
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFour skulls of human ancestors A. africanus, A. afarensis, H. erectus, H. neanderthalensis, and one...
Our tree-climbing ancestors evolved our abilities to throw far and reach high
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoDartmouth researchers report that apes and early humans evolved more flexible shoulders and elbows...
Neanderthals and humans may belong to the same species, say scientists. It could rewrite the history...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAs we begin to unpick the history of human and Neanderthal evolution, new scrutiny is being placed...
'More Neanderthal than human': How your health may depend on DNA from our long-lost ancestors
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIllustration of an early modern man embracing a Neanderthal woman. They appear to be in a forest at...
This Tacoma professor spent years in Africa rewriting what we know about evolution
Tacoma News Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen did our ancestors go from walking on all fours to just two? It’s a question that researchers...
Humans and Neanderthals only had sex for a brief period, but it still fundamentally changed our DNA
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoHumans have Neanderthal DNA as a result of interbreeding tens of thousands of years ago.Nikola...
When did humans start getting the common cold?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA young child with blonde hair sits on a bed covered in a blanket while blowing his nose into a tissue. Most people catch the common cold at least once a...