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'Absolute surprise': Homo erectus skulls found in China are almost 1.8 million years old — the oldest evidence of the ancient human relatives in East Asia

A new date for Homo erectus skulls found in central China provides new insight into how and when ancient human relatives reached eastern Asia.

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Homo erectus wasn't the first human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago, fossils suggest

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago.

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Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than we thought, scientists discover

Fire-cracked flint and heated sediments have been found at a disused clay pit in Suffolk

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'It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

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Earliest known evidence of human fire-making discovered in the UK

The material, found at at disused clay pit in Suffolk, was described by experts as the most exciting find of their careers.

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Million-year-old Skull Could Change Human Evolution Timeline

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday.

International Business Times

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

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1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the origins of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans

Reconstruction of a 1 million-year-old skull shows that early human groups split and diversified quickly.

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Mysterious ‘Petralona Man’ Skull Found In Cave 60 Years Ago Baffles Experts After New Study

"Conspiracy TikTokers will have a field day with this."

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Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals.

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140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone is convinced the study's findings are definitive.

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Ancient 'Dragon Man' skull from China isn't what we thought

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

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Neanderthals, modern humans and a mysterious human lineage mingled in caves in ancient Israel, study finds

A newly excavated cave in Israel holds burials and artifacts suggesting that multiple human species commingled and shared ideas there during the Paleolithic.

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Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain

Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers say

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‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

Arm bone suggests Homo floresiensis was forced to undergo dramatic reduction in body size after being marooned on Flores

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World’s oldest artwork discovered in Indonesian cave

The painting was dated using a new technique and suggests Europe was not where cave art first emerged.

International Business Times

World's Oldest Artwork Discovered In Indonesian Cave

It may not look like much -- just a flaking image of three people around a big red pig.

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Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

In 1974, the fossilised bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton disproved a Darwinian theory – and what links her to the Beatles?

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Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?

Scientists hope wealth of prehistoric material in Wogan Cavern in Wales is well preserved enough to reveal what really happened to our most ancient ancestors

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Neanderthals and humans interbred 47,000 years ago for nearly 7,000 years, research suggests

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years.

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What's the difference between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens?

Neanderthals are our closest relatives who went extinct around 40,000 years ago. Here's how they differed to us.

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Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’

Researchers have found fresh evidence that may connect the mysterious Denisovans to the early human species Homo longi

Inverse

Creative Structures Built By Neanderthals Is Upending How We View the Species

No other structures of this kind have been discovered. But there have been other hints that Neanderthal minds were more complex than we thought.

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When did Homo sapiens first appear?

What's the oldest fossil evidence humans have for our species?

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Where did they all go? How Homo sapiens became the last human species left

At least nine hominin species once roamed the Earth, so what became of our vanished ancestors?

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