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Study shows early humans were weapon woodwork experts
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
According to a new study, a 300,000-year-old hunting weapon sheds new light on early humans as woodworking experts.
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Did early humans and monkeys use same stone tools? Find out
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found artefacts built by old-world monkeys in Thailand that resemble stone tools that were historically thought to have been deliberately crafted by early hominins.
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Study concludes evolution of uniquely human DNA was a balancing act
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The difference between humans and chimpanzees lies in only one per cent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected amount of these differences. HARs were stable in mammals for millennia but quickly changed in early humans.
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Study finds early humans breastfed their infants for longer duration
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 7 (ANI): As researchers studied the fossilised teeth of a few ancient humans, they found that those ancestors breastfed their newborns for longer periods than their contemporary relatives.
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Birds three times larger than Ostrich existed in Taurida Cave, finds study
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 6 (ANI): Researchers have discovered that early Europeans lived alongside some of the largest known birds ever, which could have been the source of meat for early humans.
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