Knowing that our North African ancestors were making handaxes helps scientists to understand how our human ancestors spread across the African continent.
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A new environmental record for a prehistoric site in Kenya helped researchers figure out how external conditions influenced which of our ancient ancestors lived there, with what way of life.
New tools add to an emerging view of the past as a turbulent “Game of Thrones” style scenario, with distinct early human ancestors living in Eurasia before Homo sapiens arrived.
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ARC Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences, Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong
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Researcher of Prehistoric Archaeology, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III
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Director of the Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Institution
