The discovery that rewrote human evolution theory turns 50
The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination ...
New Fossil Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Early Human Size
Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...
We modeled how early human ancestors ran—and found they were surprisingly slow
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
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1.5 million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania rewrite the history of human evolution
And they knew which animals had skeletons large enough to craft reliable tools ... This way we will learn more about the evolution of human technology and behaviour. 32,789 people played the daily ...
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Smallest human relative ever found may have been devoured by a leopard 2 million years ago
The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...
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How we became human
Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright ... You can learn more about our origins and evolution in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery ...