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These 17-million-year-old fossils could rewrite the evolutionary tree of apes—including humans
In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley ...
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...
The human body is often described as a marvel of "perfect design": elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary ...
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