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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. You might think lemons are gifts from nature, but their ...
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Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing East African landscape
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...
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Mosquitoes evolved to prefer human blood. The shift could reveal when and where early humans lived
New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.
It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...
A new study published in PLOS One sheds new light on early human intelligence by revealing that 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell fragments from southern Africa bear intricate geometric markings. These ...
Genetic tweaks changed how the hip bones of early humans developed, which allowed them to start walking upright on two legs, according to new research. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News Two small ...
Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...
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