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Human Discoveries: Created by Chris Bruno, David Howard Lee. With Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, Jillian Bell, Lamorne Morris. A group of friends living at the dawn of human civilization are the first to discover necessities like fire and the wheel.
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- 2019-07-16
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- Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, Jillian Bell
- 550,000 to 750,000 Years Ago: The Beginning of The Homo Sapiens Lineage
- 300,000 Years Ago: Fossils Found of Oldest Homo Sapiens
- 300,000 Years Ago: Artifacts Show A Revolution in Tools
- 100,000 to 210,000 Years Ago: Fossils Show Homo Sapiens Lived Outside of Africa
Genes, rather than fossils, can help us chart the migrations, movements and evolution of our own species—and those we descended from or interbred with over the ages. The oldest-recovered DNA of an early human relative comes from Sima de los Huesos, the “Pit of Bones.” At the bottom of a cave in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains scientists found thousands...
As the physical remains of actual ancient people, fossils tell us most about what they were like in life. But bones or teeth are still subject to a significant amount of interpretation. While human remains can survive after hundreds of thousands of years, scientists can’t always make sense of the wide range of morphological features they see to def...
Our ancestors used stone tools as long as 3.3 million years ago and by 1.75 million years ago they’d adopted the Acheulean culture, a suite of chunky handaxes and other cutting implements that remained in vogue for nearly 1.5 million years. As recently as 400,000 years ago, thrusting spearsused during the hunt of large prey in what is now Germany w...
Many genetic analyses tracing our roots back to Africa make it clear that Homo sapiensoriginated on that continent. But it appears that we had a tendency to wander from a much earlier era than scientists had previously suspected. A jawbone found inside a collapsed caveon the slopes of Mount Carmel, Israel, reveals that modern humans dwelt there, al...
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Human Discoveries. 80,613 likes · 9 talking about this. Go back in time with a group of friends who are trying to figure it all out, for the first time.
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- In January, W. Andrew Barr from George Washington University and colleagues examined all the fossil evidence for butchery in eastern Africa from 1.2 million years ago and older.
- Well, if it wasn’t meat eating that enabled big brains to evolve, maybe it was cooking? Cooking makes food easier to digest, allowing for the extraction of more nutrients from food while expending less energy.
- Of course, what good is barbecue without a tasty beverage to wash it down? In December 2021, a team led by Jiajing Wang from Dartmouth University uncovered the oldest known beer production in the world in Egypt.
- In July, a team led by Danielle Fraser from the Canadian Museum of Nature quantified species evenness in North America over the past 20,000 years and found that there were two periods when the diversity of animal communities notably decreased.
Dec 28, 2023 · Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner. The year 2023 proved to be another exciting 12 months for research in human evolution. Many of the top stories tell us more about the diet and tool use of our early ...
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Jan 4, 2022 · Here are 10 amazing discoveries about our human predecessors that scientists made in 2021. 1. Early humans had ape-like brains. Virtual reconstructions of the five well-preserved Homo erectus ...
