A fossilized foot found 15 years ago belonged to enigmatic human relative that lived alongside Lucy, scientists say Freshly unearthed jaw bones and teeth that were found close to a previously discovered foot suggest human relatives tried several ways of walking before honing in on one strategy.

A mysterious fossilized foot found years ago in Ethiopia belongs to a controversial and enigmatic human relative that lived at the same time as our ancestor "Lucy," a new study finds.

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Evolution of intelligence in our ancestors may have come at a cost By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities may have led to our vulnerability to mental illness

Evolution of intelligence in our ancestors may have come at a cost #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #Intelligence #HumanAncestors

New Fossils Reveal Humans’ Mysterious Lost Cousin Fossils uncovered in northeastern Ethiopia, dating to between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, provide new insights into the course of human evolution. An international team of researchers has uncovered...

New Fossils Reveal Humans’ Mysterious Lost Cousin #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Fossils #Evolution #HumanAncestors

What New Human Ancestor Has Been Discovered, and How a Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S. China is having a fast-rising chikungunya outbreak in a place that has never had one before.

What New Human Ancestor Has Been Discovered, and How a Virus Outbreak in China Could Reach the U.S. #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HumanAncestors #VirusOutbreak

Human Ancestors Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago A new technique for analyzing modern genetic data suggests that prehumans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals

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September 6, 2023

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#HumanAncestors Nearly Went #Extinct 900,000 Years Ago

A new technique for analyzing #ModernGeneticData suggests that #prehumans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals

Four Oldowan tools sitting on a dirt floor. Oldowan tools may look simple, but as a recent study shows, their origins are anything but straightforward. Image credit: The Natural History Museum, London / Science Source.

#HumanAncestors may not be responsible for the famous #Oldowan #StoneTools. In PNAS Journal Club: www.pnas.org/post/journal...

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5-Mar-2025
Prehistoric bone tool ‘factory’ hints at early development of abstract reasoning in human ancestors
The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that #humanAncestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought […]