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For many years, Neanderthal people were falsely portrayed as brutish and primitive ape-men, but with every new science discovery, anthropologists learn that Neanderthals were completely human.
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For many years, Darwinian science illustrators depicted early humans as apelike and primitive. However, as paleo-anthropologists discover more information, their evidence points toward more advanced prehistoric human populations.
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A study led by University of Arizona (UA) researchers found evidence archaic forms of the genus Homo, such as Homo erectus ("upright man") and Homo habilis ("tool using man"), and Homo sapiens interbred before any modern human migrations out of Africa.
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We all know about nifty sea-faring peoples like the Phoenicians who used ships to trade, explore and build an empire, but it now seems that even Homo erectus, ancestor to Homo sapiens, crossed the oceans to emerge out of Africa.
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New dating methods have shown that Peking Man, a Homo erectus discovered in 1918 in the Zhoukoudian caves near Beijing is at least 250,000 years older than previously thought.
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Four of the oldest proto-humans outside Africa have been found in a small village in Georgia. It looks like a family of three adults and one adolescent who have been attacked by animals.
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Homo erectus, Natural History Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Homo erectus, Natural History Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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