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50 Years Ago, Discovery Of This Fossil Changed Understanding Of Evolution

November 14, 2024 admin

A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her nickname ‘Lucy’, was unearthed by researchers 50 years ago this month in the Afar region of Ethiopia. It eventually went on to transform scientists’ understanding of human evolution. Opening a new chapter in human history, the discovery by Don Johanson, an American palaeontologist and graduate student…

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Study brings lifestyle of enigmatic extinct humans into focus

July 4, 2024 admin

An undated artist’s impression of members of the extinct archaic human species called the Denisovans seen in the landscape of Ganjia Basin on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau in China’s Gansu province, depicting some of the animals whose bones were found at Baishiya Karst Cave. | Photo Credit: Reuters Thousands of bone fragments…

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Bottleneck in human evolution explained using a novel genomic analysis technique

September 4, 2023 admin

A novel genomic analysis technique has helped reveal the reasons for a ‘bottleneck’ in the growth of the human population that almost wiped out the chance for humankind as it exists today. | Photo Credit: AFP A novel genomic analysis technique has helped reveal the reasons for a ‘bottleneck’ in the growth of the human…

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