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Fossil Treasure Trove of Ancient Animals Unearthed in China

The fossils from the Cambrian Period include dozens of new species and provide a window into life more than 500 million years ago.
Archaeologists Have Unearthed A 60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Workshop In Poland With 17,000 Stone Products

This is so far the largest of its kind that has ever been discovered outside of a cave in Central Europe.
Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans

Researchers have been using a genetic approach to tackle one of the most intractable questions of all—how and when we became truly human.
DNA Clues to an Ancient Canary Islands Voyage

The islands’ pioneers likely arrived centuries before European conquest, as part of a large-scale movement of people from North Africa.
First Anatolian farmers were local hunter-gatherers that adopted agriculture

The researchers found that the early Anatolian farmers derived the vast majority of their ancestry (~90 percent) from a population related to the Anatolian hunter-gatherer in the study.