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Category: Hominin

Posted on May 1, 2019May 2, 2019

Denisovans inhabited Tibetan Plateau 120,000 years before modern humans

Contrary to popular belief that high altitudes were inhabited only by modern humans less than 40,000 years ago, fossil remains conclusively prove that Denisovans lived there 160,000 years ago. Denisovans…

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Posted on July 12, 2018July 12, 2018

Humankind’s odyssey from Africa began more than two million years ago

Michelle Langley, Griffith University Can you imagine walking 14,000 km? Trekking across wide savannas, down creek beds, along mountain chains in terrain that is new and home to foreign types…

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Posted on January 31, 2018February 1, 2018

Archaeological site near Chennai shows the long process of human evolution

At Attirampakkam archaeological site near Chennai, India, over 7,200 stone artefacts recovered reflect a distinct transition from the Acheulian culture to the Middle Palaeolithic culture at around 380,000 years ago,…

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Posted on July 30, 2016July 31, 2016

Indian researchers find a new ancestor of modern humans

A study published a few days ago in the journal Nature Genetics has found the presence of a third and a new ancestor to humans — a sibling of the…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

Black skin, a response to skin cancer risk

The ability of ultraviolet radiation to cause skin cancer is well established. Yet, it is only “generally believed” that the development of dark skin by people in Africa was an…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Wood and bark were part of human ancestor’s diet

Published in The Hindu on June 28, 2012 Two fossil specimens of Australopithecus sediba recovered from Malapa, South Africa, present a completely different picture of the type of diet consumed…

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Posted on January 9, 2016

New light on early bipedalism

Published in The Hindu on March 29, 2012 If the ability to walk and run on two legs (bipedalism) sets humans apart from apes, could this transition from tree-climbing to…

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Posted on January 7, 2016January 31, 2018

Acheulian stone tools discovered near Chennai

Acheulian stone tools, dating back to about 1.51 million years ago, have been discovered at Attirampakkam in the Kortallayar River Basin, about 60 km northwest of Chennai. Researchers from the Chennai-based…

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