Tools were made from bones as well as stones in East Africa 1.5 million years ago, new research reveals. The finding adds to ...

From the deserts of Africa to the icy frontiers of Antarctica, humans have left their mark on every continent. But how and ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

University of Tokyo researchers have investigated the origin and dispersal scenarios of Homo sapiens into East Eurasia. The ...

At least, that’s assuming Homo sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago and civilisation began 6000 years ago with the first cities in Mesopotamia. In this tale, civilisation represents a ...

The genetic variant researchers were looking at was one of a variety of genes "that contributed to the emergence of Homo sapiens as the dominant species, which we are today” said Dr. Robert ...

Indeed, it is often written almost in passing that the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, that our planet is 4.5 billion years old or that Homo sapiens evolved 300,000 years ago. Yet these ...

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