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Homo erectus had many features in common with Homo sapiens – but we still don’t have a genetic profile for this species. from www.shutterstock.com Ian Moffat, Flinders University If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being...
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Sian Tiley-Nel, chief curator, University of Pretoria Museums, CC BY-SA John Giblin, UCL It may be small enough to sit in the palm of your hand, but even now – nearly 800 years after it was lost to sight in what is now South Africa – the Golden Rhinoceros of...
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Rice famers near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Darren Curnoe, Author provided Darren Curnoe, UNSW Sydney Twelve thousand years ago everybody lived as hunters and gatherers. But by 5,000 years ago most people lived as farmers. This brief period marked the biggest shift ever in...
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Remains of meals at Haua Fteah cave reveal a lot about past climates in in the Gebel Akhdar region of Libya. Amy Prendergast , Author provided Amy Prendergast, The University of Melbourne This article is part of our occasional long read series Zoom Out, where authors...
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Homo sapiens evolved in the East African rift valley…but then what happened? 26781577@N07/flickr , CC BY-SA Darren Curnoe, UNSW Sydney You might say it’s the ultimate prize of science, to discover when, where and why humans evolved. For a long time, the evidence has...
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One of the Klasies River spinning discs and the replica built for the recording studio. Kumbani et al (2019), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Sarah Wurz, University of the Witwatersrand; Joshua Kumbani, University of the Witwatersrand; Justin Bradfield,...