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Proteins in Teeth Suggest Female‑Only Homo naledi Burial at Rising Star Cave

The discovery could indicate symbolic burial practices by a small‑brained hominin and prompt rethinking of early social complexity.

Late Northwestern Neanderthals Had Healthy Genomes, Complicating How They Disappeared

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DNA From Polish Cave Reconstructs 100,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Community

10,500-Year-Old Aurochs Skull on Pine Stake Suggests Ritual Display Near Northern Germany’s Oldest Known Grave

Science Study Finds Neanderthal–Human Mating Skewed Toward Neanderthal Men and Human Women

Malawi Pyre Dating to 9,500 Years Ago Is Africa’s Earliest Intentional Cremation

New Study Says 'Little Foot' May Represent an Unknown Australopithecus Species

Oldest Clear Evidence of Intentional Fire-Making Found at 400,000-Year-Old Suffolk Site

Ancient DNA From Southern Africa Reveals Long-Isolated Homo Sapiens Lineage

Altamura Neanderthal’s Nose Reconstruction Overturns Claimed Cold-Adaptation Traits

New Model Recasts Neanderthal 'Extinction' as Genetic Absorption Into Modern Humans

Nature Study Finds 8,500-Year-Old Ancestry in Central Argentina That Endures Today

New Finds at Aguada Fénix Show 3,000-Year-Old Maya Monument Was a Built Cosmogram

Rebuilt Chinese Fossil Skull Suggests Earlier Human Lineage Split

Reconstructed Million-Year-Old Chinese Skull Points to Earlier Human Lineage Split

Digital Rebuild of 1‑Million‑Year‑Old Chinese Skull Points to Earlier Human Lineage Split

Genomic Study Maps Sex-Biased, Cape-Centered Colonial Ancestry in South Africans

eLife Paper Revives Case for Homo Naledi Burials Deep in Rising Star Caves

Skhūl Child Fossil Shows Mixed Human–Neanderthal Traits, Pushing Interbreeding to 140,000 Years Ago

Study Recasts 140,000-Year-Old Skhūl Child as Earliest Homo Sapiens–Neandertal Hybrid