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Cast of the 'Nariokotome boy' (Homo ergaster) skeleton

Earliest humans had diverse range of body types, just as we do today

27 Mar 2015

New research harnessing fragmentary fossils suggests our genus has come in different shapes and sizes since its origins over two million years ago...

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Isampur

The thinking hominid

01 Feb 2008

The discovery in southern India of a well-preserved quarry dating from a million years ago is helping researchers to answer: how intelligent were our...

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