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The African continent holds stories of innovation by our firsthuman ancestors. Tanzania has evidence of major innovationincluding: the first upright walking, experiments with some of the first stone tools, first musical instrument -Malimba and the world’s oldest...
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A family migrating to western US in 1886. Marion Doss/Flickr, CC BY-SA George Busby, University of Oxford Over the past 25 years, scientists have supported the view that modern humans left Africa around 50,000 years ago, spreading to different parts of the world by...
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The evolutionary tree may not be this simple. shutterstock Francis Thackeray, University of the Witwatersrand More than 145 years ago, Charles Darwin argued that Africa was the continent from which humans evolved in prehistory. We now know he was right. We have the...
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Virtual ideal reconstruction of Mtoto’s position in the burial pit. Jorge González/Elena Santos Simon Armitage, Royal Holloway University of London How did human uniqueness first evolve among our ancestors, setting us apart from other animals? That is a question many...
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Hausa is the most widely known Chadic language, spoken by some 80 million people or more. It’s harder to grasp the history of other, unwritten Chadic languages. Irene Becker/Contributor/Getty Images H. Ekkehard Wolff, University of Leipzig Africa is humankind’s home...
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Oleg Znamenskiy/Shutterstock.com Eleanor Scerri, University of Oxford Think of rainforests and the picture is inevitably one of a dark and forbidding realm where life is abundant, yet alarmingly cryptic. Rather than the sense of space offered by long, iconic grassland...