40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neandertal traits, anthropo...

Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled across the continent, according to new research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA.

Human Origins: 10 Classic Papers from Leakey to Johanson (Open Access)

Human Origins: 10 Classic Papers from Leakey to Johanson, from 1925 to 1994 (Open Access/Free):1) Dart, R. A. Australopithecus africanus: The Man-Ape of South Africa Nature 115, 195-199 (1925) When Dart, an...

Another Prehistoric Woman

The male bias in science presumes that the humnaoid fossils we find are male. The fact is that now more often than not they are found to be women continues to be revealed as in the case of Our Lady of Flores and now in China with the Jinniushan fossil.

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