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Human ancestors engraved abstract patterns

A member of the now-extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by modern humans, researchers say. Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H.
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Ancient human bone helps date our first sex with Neanderthals

An ancient leg bone found by chance on the bank of a Siberian river has helped scientists work out when early humans interbred with our extinct cousins, the Neanderthals. A local ivory carver spotted the bone sticking out of sediments while fossil hunting in 2008 along the Irtysh river near the
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Brian Cox's Human Universe presents a fatally flawed view of evolution

When I watched the first episode of Human Universe, a televisual emission on the BBC presented by the ever-lovely Professor Brian Cox, I held my breath. I am usually allergic to tales of The Ascent of Man, but I thought – and hoped – that we’d outgrown the idea of evolution as a linear narrative
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35,000 year-old Indonesian cave paintings suggest art came out of Africa

Paintings of wild animals and hand markings left by adults and children on cave walls in Indonesia are at least 35,000 years old, making them some of the oldest artworks known. The rock art was originally discovered in caves on the island of Sulawesi in the 1950s, but dismissed as younger than
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Richard III ate like a king before biting the dust

England’s infamous King Richard III hit the banquet circuit during the years leading up to his violent 1485 death, suggests a new analysis of his recently recovered remains. Details of Richard’s killing and medical problems have emerged since his skeleton was excavated in 2012 beneath a British
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