Shaped stone spheres were part of early humanity’s toolkit for over two million years, but what exactly they were used for has remained an enigma. Until now
Paleontological surprise: Monkeys sailed from Africa to Americas not once but twice
There were two early monkey lineages in South America, not one. One lineage became the adorable platyrrhini and one went extinct
Oldest human genetic data gleaned from 1.8-million-year-old tooth
Sequencing from a second tooth ‘only’ 800,000 years old provided researchers with key information on the position of the enigmatic Homo antecessor in our evolutionary tree
Homo erectus was sexually dimorphic, new evidence shows
Experts explain to Haaretz how mere fragments of two skulls discovered in Ethiopia can be distinguished as male and female, and did it really use both crude and clever tools at the same time?
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