A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

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In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

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New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...