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Portland, Oregon—Ishi Nobu, author of The Story of Humanity: Ecology & Consequence has just released an audiobook of his award-winning book. Listen to a sample here: https://amzn.to/3lBxhF4In the far future, alien scholars from a nearby galaxy chronicle an ape on Earth: a beautiful planet with the ruins and records of

International research team says highly connected gene pools over vast distances suggest migrations were common in North Asia since at least the Early Holocene. An international team lead by researchers from the University of Tübingen,...

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New excavations that reveal a pair of gigantic molars alongside the Oldowan toolkit raise questions about which human ancestor made the tools.

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Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and they may have been made by our relative Paranthropus

Finds in Kenya push Oldowan tool use back to around 2.9 million years ago, roughly 300,000 years earlier than previous evidence.

Two hippo butchery sites and the largest hominin tooth ever found may change the story of the ‘Oldowan toolkit.’

Up on the Bomvu Ridge, high up in the hills north of the Eswatini capital of Mbabane, the re-excavation of Lion Cavern — possibly the oldest mine in the world — is lending further evidence to southern Africa’s position as not only the cradle of humankind, but also of human culture.