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Where Homo naledi fits in the human family tree

Homo naledi displays a puzzling mix of primitive and modern traits, making its place in the human family tree difficult to define. Detailed comparisons of teeth and skeletal features reveal just how ...
Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...
Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...