Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

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On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to go to space. Ham reached an altitude of 157 miles during a 16 and a ...

A team of researchers have discovered a tiny bit of genetic material that was never previously know of. The obelisks in our bodies paint a clearer picture.

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DR. L. S. B. LEAKEY has reported 1,2 the discovery at Olduvai of what he regards as a large second lower deciduous molar of a hominid exhibiting affinities with Sinanthropus and the Heidelberg jaw, ...

Scientific work at the site, which lies 42 km south-west of Beijing, is still underway. So far, it has led to the discovery of the remains of Sinanthropus pekinensis, who lived in the Middle ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

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