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Three distinct phases of climate variability in eastern Africa coincided with shifts in hominin evolution and dispersal over the last 620,000 years,

Guest “never mind” by David Middleton From Real Clear Science… How Did Humans Survive Our Near Extinction?By Ross Pomeroy – RCP Staff Roughly 75,000 years ago, Indonesia exploded...

With the discovery of a tooth here or a bone fragment there, archaeologists piece together the history of humanity - and a recent discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores provides new insight into human evolution...

The first humans were smaller, but “scrappy” according to a new comprehensible dataset. These humans emerged from South Africa and were from a smaller-bodied species called Homo habilis -- aka, “The Handy Man.” This...

Some scientists think humanity might be heading toward extinction, but others, like the founder of Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Project Juan Enriquez, believe that perhaps we are evolving into a different species...

     Versus      Image Credit: Wikipedia                                 Image Credit: Anne Knock From Live Science: At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was...