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Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park.

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Ice Age Footprints review: Ancient humans’ arrival in North America

This documentary tracks the quest for the oldest human footprints in North America, and what they can tell us about when people first arrived on the continent

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People instinctively run at their most energy-efficient speed

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Ancient footprints are a welcome new window on ancient people's lives

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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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How fossil footprints are revealing the joy and fear of Stone Age life

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RCHDGR . Die Pithecanthropus-Schichten auf Java. Geologische und palaontologische Ergebnisse der Trinil-Expedition (1907 und 1908), ausgefuhrt mit Unterstutzung der Akademischen Jubilaumsstiftung der Stadt Berlin und der Koniglich bayerischen Akademi der Wissenschaften. Geology; Paleontology; Homo erectus. Sdenka-Trinu-Expedition. Tafel III.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Selenka, Lenore; Blanckenhorn, Max Ludwig

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Fate of buried Java Man revealed in unseen notes from Homo erectus dig

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Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

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Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

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View of the excavations at the entrance of Grotte Mandrin

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Modern humans moved into cave one year after Neanderthals abandoned it

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160,000-year-old fossil may be the first Denisovan skull we've found

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percussion notches on large bovid humerus

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Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

Cut marks on animal bones suggest ancient hominins butchered them for their meat, and that they were first on the scene instead of having to scavenge from carnivores like big cats

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Bronze Age migration may have brought Celtic languages to Britain

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Laughter Lab at London's Cartoon Museum explores the science of humour

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Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia

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