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New Archaeology Discoveries Shed Light on Humanity's Oldest Relatives
Since the late 1800s, we've known that other types of humans once roamed our planet. At that time, scientists recognized that fossils unearthed in caves across Europe belonged to archaic humans now known as Neanderthals. Over that time, our understanding of Neanderthals has undergone dramatic upheavals.
Modern humans are far from the only species in the Homo genus. Here are others that went extinct long ago. The ancient human family tree is …
"The Neanderthal is not a brother or a cousin. It is an object of study. The Neanderthal can't in any case be compared with anything that is familiar …
Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive …
Modern humans may descend from two or more genetically distinct streams that split but continued to occasionally mix over time in Africa. Modern …
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