Our Homo sapiens ancestors shared the world with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other types of humans whose DNA lives on in our genes. Unearthing those extinct genomes has profound practical and philosophical implications.
Scientists have discovered a mutation that increases the production of brain cells and seems to have set our ancestors apart from other hominins.
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A group of climate physicists ran a climate model on a supercomputer to reconstruct how temperature and rainfall might have shaped the resources available to humans over the past few million years, and therefore human migration and evolution.
The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.
Life and death of some of our earliest ancestors, australopiths like Lucy.
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It's not easy to say what makes a human -- to define the boundaries of the family. But we now know that it's a big and complex picture, with lots of amazing relatives in it.
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