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Tiny Artifacts Shift Debate Over Early Humans' Intelligence

Posted 03.19.2013 | Science
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By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 11/07/2012 01:19 PM EST on LiveScience Rocks carved into ancient stone arrowheads or into let...

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Tiny Fossil Settles Big Debate About Human Ancestors

Posted 02.12.2013 | Science
Read More: Selam, Video, Early Human, Australopithecus, Lucy, Australopithecus Trees, Paleoanthropology, Anthropology, Early Human Trees, Human Origins, Archaeology, Fossil, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 10/25/2012 02:12 PM EDT on LiveScience Despite the ability to walk upright, early relatives o...

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Famed Scientist Sounds Off On Evolution Debate's Future

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 02.24.2013 | Science
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NEW YORK -- Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself....

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Sex With Neanderthals: The Ultimate Immunity Boost

Priya Malhotra | Posted 11.12.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Paleoanthropology, Anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, Neanderthals, Immunology, Hla, Neanderthals Interbreeding, Denisovans, Immune System, Chicago News
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One key contributor to a good immune system is good genes. Lately, researchers have been asking, Where did these "good genes" come from? The answer: sex with Neanderthals.

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Researchers: Humans Crowded Out Neanderthals

AP | Posted 09.27.2011 | Green
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WASHINGTON -- Were the Neanderthals simply crowded out by the ancestors of modern humans? That's the theory of a pair of British researchers, who say...

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The Wanderer May Have Been A Woman

AP | By SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 08.01.2011 | Denver
Read More: Women, Paleontology Finding, Cavewoman, Cu Boulder Professor, University of Oxford Archaeologist Michael Petraglia, Paleontology, Paleoanthropology, Sandi Copeland, Cavemen, Denver News

-- In modern times, men explored the New World. But 2 million years earlier, the men among our pre-human forerunners stayed put and it was the women ...

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