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We are not one, but many. New research shows an 80/20 split in our genes from two distinct proto-human lineages, millions of years ago. Source: Sérgio Valle Duarte / CC BY 3.0.
21 MAR 2025 · 4 MIN

Rewriting Human Evolution: Not One Lineage of Man, but Two?

A new study from a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has upended centuries of theory as to the origins and evolution of… us. We are not who we thought…
An ancestors may have been much happier living in rainforests than we thought. Source: Goodfon / Public Domain.
7 MAR 2025 · 3 MIN

New Evidence Shows We Lived in Ancient Rainforests 150,000 Years Ago

For much of human history rainforests have been the poster child for untouched, virgin wilderness. We only had to look at the vast trees and hidden world beneath the canopy to instantly…
Something strange has been found on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Two sets of footprints show two different hominin species, apparently coexisting.
2 DEC 2024 · 3 MIN

Cross-Species Friends? 1.5 Million Year Old Footprints Show Hominins Cohabiting

Lake Turkana in Kenya feels like an alien world. The lake, brackish and saline, is surrounded by desert and what life survives in the area does so in defiance of its inhospitable…