This ancient human may be the root of the Homo sapiens family tree

New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like ...
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Unearthing the Ancestors: Fossils Reveal Human Evolutionary Clues

Fossilized bones and teeth dating back 773,000 years, discovered in Morocco, provide insight into early human evolution.
The Village Voice

Life After Us: Geyrhalter’s ‘Homo Sapiens’ Surveys Humanity’s Ruins

For his latest documentary, Austria’s Nikolaus Geyrhalter quite justifiably could have borrowed the title of Chinua Achebe’s best-known novel: Things Fall Apart. But the fact that a ninety-minute film ...
MARCA

Goodbye to what we thought about the origin of human life: DNA variants exclusive to Homo Sapiens have been found that change everything

Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded southwards, but now a ...
PBS

A look at the new discoveries that make Neanderthals more knowable now than ever

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...
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Could the Real-Life “Hobbit” Still Be Alive? 15 True Facts About Homo floresiensis

Back in 2003, scientists made an astonishing discovery in a cave on a remote Indonesian island: tiny human skeletons that looked like something straight out of fantasy fiction. These ancient relatives ...