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Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...
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Million-year-old skull discovery rewrites the story of human evolution

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central ... they positioned Yunxian 2 with Asian fossils such as Dali, Jinniushan, and the giant Harbin skull. These include what scientists ...

Discovery of fossilized hand may unlock a 1.5-million-year-old mystery

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

Inside Richard Leakey's discovery of an ancient human ancestor skull—the same his parents chased

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...