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Petralona skull dated to at least 286kya

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Aug 22 23:11:57 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Thu Aug 28 13:58:17 2025
Arrow points at 80kya

By Primum Sapienti on Mon Aug 25 22:31:08 2025

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Oldowan toolmakers moved stones over substantial distances

By Pandora on Sat Aug 16 14:41:59 2025

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Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'

By Primum Sapienti on Wed Aug 13 22:44:53 2025

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Early primates primarily inhabited cold and temperate climates

By Pandora on Wed Aug 13 20:50:38 2025

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New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia

By Pandora on Wed Aug 13 20:29:36 2025

Latest reply by Pandora on Wed Aug 13 20:29:36 2025
850kya evidence of cannibalism at Atapuerca

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Jul 27 16:51:20 2025

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Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution

By Pandora on Fri Aug 1 12:11:07 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Sun Aug 3 04:44:17 2025
Savannah chimps - bipedalism and time spent foraging in trees

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Aug 1 22:22:34 2025

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Early human ancestors showed extreme size differences between males and females

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Aug 1 21:40:14 2025

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Maggots may have been on the Neandertal menu

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Jul 27 18:31:21 2025

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Did increasing brain size place early humans at risk of extinction? (physiological costs of large brains)

By Primum Sapienti on Thu Jul 24 22:39:20 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Sat Jul 26 04:47:49 2025
Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA bygenotype likelihoods

By Primum Sapienti on Thu Jul 24 22:34:15 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Sat Jul 26 04:37:03 2025
100 ky old Israeli burial site; with materials transported from tens of km away

By Primum Sapienti on Thu Jul 24 22:50:43 2025

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Neanderthal groups butchered game in different ways

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Jul 20 23:50:06 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Mon Jul 21 03:07:14 2025
test

By erik simpson on Fri Jul 18 14:26:02 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Fri Jul 18 19:39:06 2025
If Gary Lesley were a woman

By JTEM on Fri Jul 18 06:06:13 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Fri Jul 18 06:06:45 2025
The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion: what can we learn from landscapes of fear and primate terrestriality?

By Primum Sapienti on Tue Jul 15 00:42:39 2025

Latest reply by Primum Sapienti on Tue Jul 15 00:42:39 2025
Neanderthal 'Swiss army knife'

By Pandora on Thu Jul 10 10:44:41 2025

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300 kya wooden tools discovered in SW China

By Primum Sapienti on Wed Jul 9 22:14:42 2025

Latest reply by JTEM on Thu Jul 10 00:36:51 2025
Uruguay: Ancient sloth bone shows signs of possible human-inflicted trauma 33kya

By Primum Sapienti on Wed Jul 9 22:09:08 2025

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33000 new world humans? (tentative)

By erik simpson on Sun Jul 6 08:52:14 2025

Latest reply by erik simpson on Sun Jul 6 08:52:14 2025
Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupationin Australia

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Jul 4 23:09:55 2025

Latest reply by Kerr-Mudd, John on Sat Jul 5 09:41:55 2025
Re: Neanderthal "fat factory"

By JTEM on Fri Jul 4 16:56:15 2025

Latest reply by Primum Sapienti on Fri Jul 4 00:11:12 2025
Ochre discovery in South African cave reveals advanced toolmaking during the Middle Stone Age

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Jul 4 00:26:59 2025

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A 43 ky old fingerprint

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Jul 4 00:19:20 2025

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Re: New analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 kya

By Christian Weisgerber on Tue Jul 1 20:09:08 2025

Latest reply by Mikko on Wed Jul 2 10:36:54 2025