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Experts are now scrambling to decide how this discovery changes the already complicated saga of humanity's origins. The longer scientists study the fossil record, the more convinced they become that evolution did not make a simple transition from ape to human. There were probably many false starts and dead...
Now it appears to be happening once again. Findings announced in the past two weeks are rattling the foundations of anthropology and raising some startling possibilities. Humanity's ancestors may have departed Africa -- the cradle of mankind -- eons earlier than scientists have assumed. Humans may have evolved not just in...
The new dates ended up validating Curtis' previous work. The Mojokerto child and the Sangiran fossils were about 1.8 million and 1.7 million years old, respectively, comparable in age to the oldest Homo erectus from Africa. Here, then, was a likely solution to one of the great mysteries of human...
We sit at a table by the window, it's a sunny winter day, so bright the snow outside seems to glitter. I begin by asking Carpenter about the team, and he gives me a quick history of its evolution.
Two things make Origins more compelling than most science programs. The producers avoided the temptation to be encyclopedic and thereby to overwhelm viewers with information. And Johanson doesn't simply present facts. He shows how paleoanthropologists actually work, how they uncover fossils (the hard part) and how they analyze what...