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Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

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Ancient humans arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than thought - Findings suggest human ancestors ...

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The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what prehistoric humans may have sounded like millions of years ago.

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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Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than commonly believed ...