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Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study found. The prints are thought to belong to the ...

It’s fun to imagine two different types of early humans exchanging fist bumps, high fives, or fishing tales, there’s no evidence any such encounter took place. Although plenty of evidence shows that ...

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution - ANALYSIS: Changes in the appearance of ancient ...

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Researchers had long suspected that these two groups of ancient human relatives interbred ... If they come from entirely different species of hominin, heterozygosity would be high.

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were ... is direct evidence that different kinds of human relatives, with distinct anatomies and gaits, inhabited the same place ...