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Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

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Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

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Long before evolution equipped them with the right teeth, early humans began eating tough grasses and starchy underground plants—foods rich in energy but hard to chew. A new study reveals that this ...