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See 550 million years of human evolution in 1 minute
In the next 60 seconds, you will be on the time machine upstream to visit human ancestors hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Why don't all primates evolve into humans?
Prior to the widely accepted hypothesis that humans now originate from ancient gibbons.
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Working cooperation helps people be smarter
Compared to human ancestors, 'smart people' have bigger brains - a mystery that scientists have always wanted to explore. According to researchers in Ireland and Scotlan…
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Wrinkling hands is a sign of evolution?
In the eyes of science, the wrinkling of skin when soaking in water for long time is not merely a physical phenomenon, but may be an adaptation to the environment from a…
Oceanography
Human ancestors are jellyfish?
There has long been a related theory of human origins with sponges, but new genetic research shows that a jellyfish-like species is likely to be the origin of every crea…
Archeology
Carnivorous dinosaurs make people vulnerable to ultraviolet rays
According to the Current Biology magazine, when hunting human ancestors, carnivorous dinosaurs can affect our bodies without the protection against ultraviolet radiation.
Archeology
Why did human ancestors win the evolution race?
According to the latest research, it is the adaptation to many different types of weather that makes the smart people win the race to evolve species.
Archeology
Evidence of the arrival of Philippine islanders 700,000 years ago
According to scientists' writings, scattered stone tools in heaps of hippopotamus show that they came to the Philippines archipelago about 709,000 years ago.
Archeology
Humans and sharks have the same ancestors
According to a new report published by the University of Chicago research team (USA), at 440 million years ago, a common ancestor of humans and sharks once existed on Ea…
Archeology
Human ancestors migrated around the world much earlier than we thought
For thousands of years, Homo Sapiens first crossed mountains, deserts and oceans to Africa.
Archeology
We have become more extinct with the Neanderthals than we thought
A newly excavated 52,000-year-old piece of bone in Croatia has revealed more about the origins of humanity.
Archeology
'Water monsters' eating shark meat may be human ancestors
A fossil discovered in Ningxia, China, has created a debate over the past century: is the ancestor of humans and other four-legged animals a prehistoric sea monster?
Archeology
13 million year fossils of human ancestors
US scientists in the study published in Nature published the discovery of the oldest fossil of human ancestors living in Africa, National Geographic on 9/8 reported.
Archeology
Announcing new concussions about human origin
Researchers have long believed that the origins of humanity evolved from apes that lived about 5 million years ago in Africa.