Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo
Dr. Ian Towle, a researcher with the Biomedicine Discovery Institute at Monash University, proposes folding nearly 5 million…
Denisovans Were Surprisingly Tall, New Fossils from Taiwan Suggest
Two fossilized leg bones of Denisovans — an extinct archaic Homo group whose lineage diverged from the Neanderthal…
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with…
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the…
Ancient Turkish Cave Reveals Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Shared Same Way of Life
Üçağızlı II Cave on Türkiye’s Mediterranean coast has yielded a rare and detailed record of two Homo species…
New Research Traces Origins of Human Laughter
The way humans laugh — in rapid, rhythmically timed bursts — is not uniquely ours. New research by…
Acheulean Toolmakers Chose Their Stone with Surprising Precision
Geochemical analysis of 780,000-year-old stone tools from Israel suggests Acheulean (or Acheulian) hominins repeatedly sought specific basalt sources,…
Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can…
China’s Xigou Site Yields Evidence of Advanced Stone Tool Technology
Technological innovations in Africa and Western Europe in the later part of the Middle Pleistocene signal the behavioral…
Watch: Finn Wolfhard in ‘Harry Potter’ x ‘Heated Rivalry’ SNL Trailer
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Enigmatic Hominins May Have Overlapped with Homo sapiens on Sulawesi
At Leang Bulu Bettue, a rock-shelter in the Maros-Pangkep karst region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, paleoanthropologists…
Heatwave dressing: Can you really wear shorts to the office?
I fell down a rabbit hole, a deep dive into the Papers Past newspaper archive and a treasure…