As anthropologists have discovered new species of human ancestors, our understanding of human history has changed. By sequencing the genomes from our Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins, scientists have also gained new insight into the genetic origins of our species. As researchers make more of these breakthroughs, the puzzle of who […]
Anthropologists have found very few fossils of the Australopithecus anamensis species – a hominin ancestor that lived in Africa between 4 million and 2 million years ago. Now researchers have discovered that an Australopithecus anamensis skull found in 2016 is 3.8 million years old, making it the oldest Australopithecus skull […]
Recent discoveries have revealed that much of the traditional understanding of the human origin story is wrong. Until the past few years, most anthropologists and archaeologists believed that the first members of our species – Homo sapiens – evolved in East Africa approximately 200,000 years ago. As that story goes, […]
Humans have had a long history. 3.8 million years in the making, to be precise. From the primordial puddle to the modern day, here’s how humans have evolved. The following is a review of the life forms depicted in the video. The origin of life, Prokaryote, Cyanobacteria, Eukaryote, Choanoflagellate, Platyhelminthes […]
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