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Oldest Australopith Skull Raises Questions About Hominin Evolution

Denisova Cave - Shutterstock

The Denisovans: New Finds are Illuminating the Mysterious Ancient Humans

Neanderthals at Museum - Wikimedia

Neanderthal’s Got ‘Surfer’s Ear’ A Lot, Study Says

Chimp and Human - Alamy

What Happened When Humans Became Hairless

Goosebumps - Shutterstock

Why Do People Get Goosebumps?

Bale Mountains, Ethiopia - Shutterstock

Ancient African Ancestors Lived In High Mountains, Ate Rodents of Unusual Size

Homo naledi Skeleton - Lee Roger Berger

Meet Homo naledi: The Mysterious Human Cousin

Homo floresiensis Skull - Wikimedia Commons

Meet Homo floresiensis: The Real-life Hobbits of Indonesia

Cooking Over Fire - Shutterstock

How Humans’ Unique Cooking Abilities Might Have Altered Our Fate

An artist’s depiction of Lucy, the world’s most famous Australopithecus africanus.

Australopithecus Drank Breast Milk for Years to Survive Food Shortages

Apidima 1 and Reconstruction - Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Apidima Skull is Earliest Homo Sapiens Outside Africa, Say Researchers

Cave Art - Shutterstock

Just How Many Extinct Types of Human Did Our Ancestors Meet?

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