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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

29 November 2018

The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago
Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

29 November 2018

We thought the first Homo species evolved in East Africa 2.8 million years ago, but stone tools from Algeria suggest our origins may have spanned the continent

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