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The “Red Lady” had her skull stolen 19,000 years ago
Only one burial has been found in Spain from the period after the peak of the last ice age. It's called the Red Lady and it's ruddy weird. This is her story
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Extinction of Neanderthals set up by climate change
Research reveals that climate change created the perfect conditions for the extinction of Neanderthals and the flourishing of modern humans.
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Lucy weighed less than a labrador
New research into how much Lucy weighed has found she was surprisingly dainty, clocking in less than a labrador. What does this mean for human evolution?
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Pierced sticks: A stone age mystery solved 150 years after it was found
Pierced sticks are a strange stone age tool first found 150 years ago. Now, archaeologists are finally starting to figure out what they were used for.
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Baboons show climate change drove human origins
Research on baboons has shown how changing climates can break up populations, creating the diversity that drives evolution. Could our origins be the same?
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Sunburn and skin cancer killed off Neanderthals
The Neanderthal extinction coincides with a drop in the earth’s geomagnetic field, exposing them to sunburn and skin cancer. Could it have killed them off?
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Oldest Australopithecus spine discovered, already adapted for bipedalism
Researchers have found the oldest known Australopithecus spine, dating to a whopping 4.2 million years ago. It sheds light on the evolution of bipedalism.
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Sexual dimorphism in Lucy’s species as extreme as in gorillas
Modern humans have the lowest sexual dimorphism in primates. However, it turns out this was likely recent and was much higher in Australopithecus.
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Neanderthals were the first humans to hunt eagles
Many cultures have been obsessed with eagles. It turns out Neanderthals were the first, hunting them more than any other bird 130,000 years ago.
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CSI Stone Age: These Neanderthals were murdered
Victorian archaeologists found 2 Neanderthals in a Belgian Cave. Now, forensic methods are revealing their grusome (pre)history, showing they were murdered