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Rare 2-Million-Year-Old Infant Facial Fossils Expand What We Know About Prehistoric Human Children

However, because infant specimens are extremely rare in the fossil record, scientists were until now unsure if these species-specific traits were present from birth. To find out, the study authors ...
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'Java Man,’ the first Homo erectus discovered, is finally going home

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...
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140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones discovered on 'drowned land' in Indonesia

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...
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AI reveals which predators chewed ancient humans’ bones – challenging ideas on which ‘Homo’ species was the first tool-using hunter

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) Almost 2 million years ...