Fossil Discovery of New Human Ancestor May Connect Us to Neandertals and Denisovans

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...
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These 773,000-year-old hominin fossils from Morocco may be the closest ancestors of modern humans

This cave was probably a death trap. Nearly 800,000 years ago, carnivores dragged prey into a hollow carved into coastal rock ...
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773,000-Year-Old Fossils Capture a Moment Before Human Lineages Split

Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify ...
Science Daily

A legendary fossil is forcing scientists to rethink human origins

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...
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New Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

773,000-Year-Old Fossils Add a New Twist to Humanity’s Deep Origins

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...
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This ancient fossil could rewrite the story of human origins

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...
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'Little Foot' fossil study suggests it comes from a completely new human species unknown to science

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...