Tag: HumanEvolution
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Ancient DNA Reveals Stone Age Teen in Italy Had Rare Dwarfism
New Window into the Stone Age Mystery In a remarkable discovery at a cave site in Italy, researchers have identified a teenage girl from roughly 12,000 years ago who carried a rare form of dwarfism. The finding comes from a detailed DNA analysis of her skeleton, providing a rare glimpse into the health and genetics…
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One-Million-Year Skull in China Reframes Human Evolution
Introduction A breakthrough in paleoanthropology could rewrite the early chapters of human evolution. A one-million-year-old skull found in Yunxian, China, is being studied with cutting-edge digital reconstruction techniques, challenging the view that our distant ancestors diverged primarily in Africa. The Yunxian 2 Skull Comes Alive Discovered in 1990, the crushed Yunxian 2 skull was long…