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Neanderthals

Debunking the Myth of Homo Sapiens Superiority

A Neanderthal skull and rendering

Exploring Neanderthal Ancestry: Who Came Before the Neanderthals?

Sleeping man

The Strange Sleeping Habits of Homo Sapiens

Ice Age human

How Humans Survived the Ice Age

Dugout Canoe

Preservation Work Begins On Dugout Canoe Found At The Bottom of Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota

skull

Homo Who? A New Mystery Human Species Has Been Discovered in Israel

DSC-OS1220 deforestation

The Human Epoch: When Did the Anthropocene Begin?

Sulawesi island view

The Indonesian Island of Sulawesi Is an Evolutionary Puzzle

Baby giraffe

Why Baby Animals Can Walk So Much Sooner Than Human Infants

stressed woman - shutterstock

Fight or Flight? Why Our Caveman Brains Keep Getting Confused

Illustration of a Diplocaulus, an amphibian tetrapod that lived in the Permian and Carboniferous periods

The Rise of the Tetrapods: How Our Early Ancestors Left Water to Walk on Land

Depiction of Neanderthals communicating around a fire

Did Neanderthals Speak? Breakthrough Study Suggests Our Ancient Cousins Could Talk

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