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Only at the precipice do we evolve.” Those words, spoken by Professor Barnhardt in The Day the Earth Stood Still, capture one ...

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A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago.

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Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of ...

Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared ...

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