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Evidence of upright walking (habitual, not obligate) found in 7mya Sahelanthropus fossils

By Primum Sapienti on Sat Jan 3 23:24:46 2026

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Stone and mammoth ivory tool production in Tanana Valley, Alaska

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Dec 28 23:15:57 2025

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First Occupations of Western Europe: Dispersals and Population Dynamics in the Early to Middle Pleistocene

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Dec 7 20:32:24 2025

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StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Dec 7 19:50:18 2025

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New Australopithecus deyiremeda finds

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Dec 7 19:39:21 2025

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does Mike have a 3D printer yet?

By JTEM on Thu Dec 4 01:02:07 2025

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The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps

By Primum Sapienti on Sat Nov 15 23:07:02 2025

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3 mya Olduan tool finds show manufacturing continuity over 300K years

By Primum Spaienti on Sun Nov 9 22:52:13 2025

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North American tool assemblages share affinities with the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kuril region

By Primum Sapienti on Tue Nov 11 23:53:39 2025

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Evidence for ochre crayon usage by neanderthals

By Primum Spaienti on Sun Nov 9 23:04:10 2025

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Chimpanzees can use metacognition to make decisions

By Primum Sapienti on Tue Nov 4 20:35:29 2025

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Genome analysis from a 200ky Denisovan

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Nov 2 22:35:22 2025

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By Primum Sapienti on Sun Nov 2 22:27:44 2025

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Synthesis of 117 publications on Omo-Turkana hominins

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Nov 2 22:12:23 2025

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Evolvability of Paranthropus Cranial Morphology

By Pandora on Fri Oct 31 15:48:40 2025

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The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin

By Pandora on Fri Oct 31 15:31:13 2025

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The First Million Years of Technology: The Lomekwian and the Early Oldowan

By Primum Sapienti on Tue Oct 28 22:48:34 2025

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Humans impacted Late Pleistocene landscapes before agriculture

By Primum Sapienti on Tue Oct 28 22:45:29 2025

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Florida park's swimming monkeys

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Oct 26 22:56:51 2025

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The hand of Paranthropus boisei

By Pandora on Thu Oct 16 18:28:53 2025

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Ardipithecus ramidus ankle

By Pandora on Thu Oct 16 18:22:58 2025

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Argentina: Extinct megafauna were principal human prey 11.6kya

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Oct 12 22:51:41 2025

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Neandertal Cold Adaptation

By Pandora on Tue Oct 7 17:50:01 2025

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Jane Goodall's first National Geographic article

By Primum Sapienti on Fri Oct 3 23:47:11 2025

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Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters 11.6 kya

By Primum Sapienti on Thu Oct 2 23:03:11 2025

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Obituary Jane Goodall

By Pandora on Thu Oct 2 16:24:40 2025

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Proboscis monkeys' big noses boost vocal identity

By Primum Sapienti on Wed Sep 10 22:15:03 2025

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Loss of laryngeal air sacs in hominins

By Primum Sapienti on Tue Sep 23 22:49:02 2025

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Re: Has the history of human evolution been rewritten?

By x on Tue Sep 30 14:48:50 2025

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The Real Life DocUFO

By JTEM on Wed Oct 1 20:53:07 2025

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By Tilde on Fri Sep 5 22:36:58 2025

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By Primum Sapienti on Sun Sep 28 21:08:20 2025

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Palaeoanthropology and the study of pre-adult fossil remains

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Sep 28 21:05:26 2025

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Yunxian cranium

By erik simpson on Fri Sep 26 08:38:22 2025

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Homo habilis as prey

By Primum Sapienti on Tue Sep 23 22:43:17 2025

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Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Sep 7 22:44:42 2025

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Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi ... contexts and evolutionary implications

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Sep 7 22:48:15 2025

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Traces of blue indigo on 34,000-year-old grinding tools suggest new Paleolithic plant use scenarios

By Primum Sapienti on Sat Sep 6 21:03:04 2025

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Primate thumbs and brains evolved hand-in-hand

By Primum Sapienti on Sun Aug 31 23:54:46 2025

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Petralona skull dated to at least 286kya

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupationin Australia

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

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Re: Neanderthal "fat factory"

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

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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

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