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Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record ...

For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some ...

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Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens ...

The fossils, along with animal bones and stone ... Maria Martinon-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, called the site "one of the most significant discoveries ...

Indonesia's Minister of Culture Fadli Zon emphasized the region's "important part of the grand narrative of human evolution" ...