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You Can Have More Than 150 Friends
Dunbar first came up with the number by observing primates grooming.Photo: Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images (Getty Images) In the early 1990s,…
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anthropology
‘Little Foot’ Skeleton Reveals Human Relative Who Swung Through Trees
A cast of Little Foot in 2005. It would take over a decade for the real thing to be fully…
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amelie beaudet
Early Humans Were Walking Around With Ape-Like Brains, Study Finds
One of the Dmanisi skulls on exhibit in Leiden in 2009.Photo: VALERIE KUYPERS/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) Humans can…
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altai krai
Researchers May Have Found True Identity of Ancient ‘Hobbit’ Species
Liang Bua Cave on the island of Flores, where specimens of the “Hobbit” species were discovered. Image: Liang Bua Team…
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anthropology
What Fossilized Hand Says About Last Human and Chimpanzee Ancestor
Ardipithecus ramidus skull in National Museum of Natural Sciences of Spain.Photo: Tiia Monto More than 1 million years before the…
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anthropology
Did Neanderthals Have the Capacity for Verbal Language?
Illustration: Elena Scotti (Photos: Getty Images) Giz AsksGiz AsksIn this Gizmodo series, we ask questions about everything and get answers…
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