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What are ghost lineages, remnants of the past that still exist in our DNA today?

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

LiveScience · Feb 14

Discovery of complex pre-historic tools in China suggests our ancestors were far more advanced than thought

Find suggests prehistoric humans showed complex planning and understanding of how to enhance tool performance

The Independent UK · Jan 28

160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.

LiveScience · Jan 27

Europe's 1st humans were likely wiped out by a sudden freeze 1.1 million years ago

Europe underwent "extreme cooling" about 1.1 million years ago, which coincides with a gap in hominin habitation, a new study finds.

LiveScience · Aug 15, 2023

Where and when did humans evolve? New climate data may reveal the answer

Scientists use climate data from the past two million years to determine the impact of ancient climate in shaping early human evolution.

Inverse · Apr 14, 2022

Human evolution and climate study suggests Homo sapiens evolved in southern Africa

Our species, Homo sapiens, evolved in single region in southern Africa around 300,000 years ago, a new study suggests. But not everyone agrees.

ABC News · Apr 13, 2022

‘A new culture’: discovery in China reveals ochre processing in east Asia up to 41,000 years ago

Site in Nihewan Basin shows, ‘a potential signpost of a migration event of our species’, says Australian researcher

The Guardian - AU · Mar 2, 2022