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A new study challenges long-standing ideas about how early humans survived. Far from being mere hunters, our ancestors may have thrived by scavenging the remains of dead animals. This overlooked ...

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...

Researchers from Harvard University used AI to analyze nearly 16,000 ancient and 6,400 modern genomes, revealing 479 gene variants shaped by natural selection in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...