January 5, 2012
Homo erectus footprints show modern way of walking
In the Great Rift Valley in northern Kenya, researchers have discovered a cluster of footprints that look almost exactly like those you or I …
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January 5, 2012
Highlights of 2010: What does it mean to be human?
The sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2010 helps scientists answer the age-old question Calling someone a “Neanderthal” in the heat of an …
January 5, 2012
Earliest fossil evidence of humans in Southeast Asia?
Modern humans reached the islands of Southeast Asia by approximately 50,000 years ago, but our ancestors’ journey was not easy. Even during times …
January 5, 2012
Before Lucy: Older hominid Ardi challenges thinking about human evolution
Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has long been the poster child for early human evolution. But now she’ll have …