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Category: Homo species

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 August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

Only 41% in Haryana believe in evolution

Following Satyapal Singh’s denial of evolution, a small survey of over 1,700 individuals (both adults and children) from 12 States in India found that public acceptance of evolution was high…

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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 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 6, 2016

First use of stone tools pushed back by 8 lakh years

Published in The Hindu on August 12, 2010 So when did hominins (members of human lineage) start using stone tools for the first time? Until recently, based on available evidence,…

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