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The incorporation of animal resources into the diet of hominins was a milestone in the evolution of our species 7, with recent evidence confirming that, by 2.6 Ma, hominins modified mammal carcases ...

Stone tools in Ukraine dated to 1.4 million years ago may be the earliest solid evidence of humans in Europe, a new study reveals. The makers of these tools likely weren't Homo sapiens but a close, ...

Archaeologists found 1.5-million-year-old hand fossils belonging to an ape-like early human relative. The shape of the bones suggest that their owner, a species called Paranthropus boisei, was capable ...