In Hidalgo County, where the 26.9% of people living in poverty is more than twice the national average of 11.1%, Christian ...

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Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis ...

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Scientists used fragments of the child's right forearm bone to date the skeletal remains. Cidália Duarte In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo ...

(Image Credit: Jason L. Heaton) A fossil leopard lower jawbone next to a skull fragment of a juvenile Paranthropus robustus. Note the two punctures in the skull, which match the spacing of the tips of ...

Possible foundations of human intelligence observed for the first time Date: March 6, 2025 Source: IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) Summary: A study has demonstrated how neurons ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in ...