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A diversity of 2-million-year-old species
Homo erectus lived alongside Australopithecus, Paranthropus in southern Africa
Extinction of Homo erectus
Last fossils of a long-lived early human species
World’s oldest hunting scene?
Dramatic mural inside an Indonesian cave
The face of Lucy’s ancestor
Cranium of Australopithecus anamensis
First look at the face of Denisovans
A jawbone of enigmatic human relative found in Tibet
Homo luzonensis – welcome to the family!
New species discovered in the Philippines
Oldest early human toolmakers in Asia
Stone tools on China’s Loess Plateau, over 2 million years old
Our species arose at least 300,000 years ago
Oldest Homo sapiens fossils from a cave in Morocco
The extinct “hobbit” of human evolution
New date for our cousin from the island of Flores
DNA and the first Neanderthals
The genome of 430,000-year-old fossils