88,000-Year-Old Finger Found in Saudi Arabia Could Rewrite Human History
It’s just a lone, boney middle finger, but the scientists who found it say it’s the oldest directly dated fossil of our species to ever be found.
It’s just a lone, boney middle finger, but the scientists who found it say it’s the oldest directly dated fossil of our species to ever be found.
It turns out human history is more complicated—and diverse—than we could ever have imagined.
Dramatic climate instability in east Africa had a pronounced effect on human evolution, but also on human culture.
The so-called “Toba Catastrophe Theory,” as it’s called, may actually be a myth.
Will it be enough to finally dispel outdated notions of Neanderthal intelligence?
Because the fossils were uncovered in Morocc, the discovery is also resetting our notions of where and how modern humans evolved.
Guess they just did it for the delicious taste of human flesh, then. Er, not that we would know.
It’s a veritable certainty that North America’s first people arrived via the Bering Land Bridge, but less certainty exists about how and where they migrated from there.
A 1.7 million-year-old cancerous foot bone and a 2 million-year-old vertebrae ravaged by tumours, show that cancer has been bothering us for a while. So it’s not strictly a modern disease.
The fossils, which date back 700,000 years, are offering fresh insights into the origin of this mysterious species.
It’s way too early to tell if modern humans are descended from this species, but it’s clear we share a common ancestor.
