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1.5 million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania rewrite human evolution history
The Conversation  |  Mar 31, 2025

This discovery will likely encourage researchers to pay closer attention to the subtle signs of bone knapping in fossil assemblages. This way we will...

When did our ancestors start to eat meat regularly? Fossilised teeth get us closer to the answer
The Conversation  |  Mar 04, 2025

Our findings suggest that these ape-like, small-brained early hominins were eating mostly plants. There was little to no evidence of meat consumption....

Fossil footprints in northern Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted
Reuters  |  Nov 29, 2024

The researchers said the trackways appear to have been left within hours or perhaps a couple of days - the mud had never dried and cracked – and the i...

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