Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.
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Homo naledi had a brain less than half the size of our own. Yet the new research claims it had cognitive abilities far beyond what we might expect.
Researchers looked at the skeletal remains of 40 people, and found evidence of dairy consumption across a wide swathe of early Tibetan society.
New research suggests humans spread to Europe at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research, Griffith University
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Honorary Professor, Archaeology, The University of Queensland
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Researcher at the Institute for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich
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Senior Research Scientist, National Museums of Kenya
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Professor of Archaeological Theory and Method, University of Liverpool
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Senior Researcher of Natural History, Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford
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China Scholarship Council Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford
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CENIEH Director, Atapuerca Research Team and author of "Homo imperfectus" (Ed. Destino), Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
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Doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology