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AncientPages.com - Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, became extinct? It’s possible we were just smarter, but there’s surprisingly little evidence
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Our lineage's species formation pattern was unlike anything else. A cast of the skull of Homo Heidelbergensis, one of the hominin species analyzed
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles, and island lizards shrunk over time may have been solved in a new study. Image credit:
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 2023, scientists presented several interesting studies that gave us a better knowledge of our ancient human ancestors. In this article, we selected
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles have a deep and varied evolutionary past. Now, researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An extensive study sheds new light on the complex evolution of our feet. "The human foot is one of the most complex masterpieces of evolution,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Marina Ascunce, currently at the USDA-ARS, and colleagues, report these findings in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Credit: Adobe Stock - Gorodenkoff The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings. In
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team used advanced sequencing technology to analyze Ötzi’s genome to obtain a more accurate picture of the Iceman’s appearance and genetic
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study has brought us one step closer to solving a mystery that has puzzled naturalists since Charles Darwin: when did animals
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Ancient Symbols
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans' close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers. The animals,
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AncientPages.com - Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In an episode of the
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Every so often, life on Earth steps onto a nearly empty playing field and faces a spectacular opportunity. Something major changes—in the atmosphere
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A trip back through time in Alberta offers evidence to bolster a recent study suggesting non-avian dinosaurs were already waning over the 10 million
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But many uncertainties remain, and competing theories about where, when, and how. An
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Half a billion years ago, an unusual-looking animal crawled over the sea floor, using tentacles to pick up food particles along the way. Known
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times and that some humans carry DNA
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News
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published
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Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Every biologist knows that small structures can sometimes have a big impact: Millions of signaling molecules, hormones, and other biomolecules are bustling
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists say they are investigating a 1-million-year-old human skull that gives a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time—opening a 'game-changing' new chapter in the history of evolution. Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional environmental context of the evolution and dispersal of
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - "If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new
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