Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

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The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

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The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution Early displays of human evolution at the museum often focused on a linear approach, where older, ape-like ancestors gave way to more human-like species.