A new discovery is shedding more light on the overlap between the two species of human, despite the challenges of exploring this distant time
Female bodies have an advantage in endurance ability that means Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. The story is written in living and ancient human bodies.
Experts speculated that very early humans worked wood, but previously didn’t have the evidence.
Signs of controlled fire use from Spain are at least 50,000 years older than previous evidence.
The analysis could help us understand behavioural differences between the two groups of humans.
Scientists had figured a fossil found in Spain more than a century ago was from a Neandertal. But a new analysis suggests it could be from a lost lineage of our species, Homo sapiens.
Using a new equation based on today’s primates, scientists can take a few molar teeth from an extinct fossil species and reconstruct exactly how fast their offspring grew during gestation.
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