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Last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals possibly found in Casablanca, Morocco

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...
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773,000-Year-Old Fossils Capture a Moment Before Human Lineages Split

Learn how precisely dated fossils from Morocco reveal a population with a mix of archaic and emerging traits, helping clarify ...
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A clock running fast could explain Darwin’s fossil record gaps

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...
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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...