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Imaging of Australopithecus. Illustration: shutterstock

"Lucy, the Australopithecus fossil - evidence that erectness preceded brain growth"

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Throwing corpses into an isolated room in a cave, to protect them from scavengers, is probably the first burial custom. Illustration ART BY JON FOSTER. SOURCE: LEE BERGER, WITS

Where does the human species discovered in the DRAP fit in the tree of human evolution, and maybe it was even a side branch?

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Kalachao Siyum, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, of Ethiopian origin, presents the jawbone he discovered at a site in the Afar state in Ethiopia, which dates back the first species in the human lineage to 2.8 million years. Photo: Arizona State University

A jawbone discovered in Ethiopia indicates that the human lineage began 2.8 million years ago, earlier than previously thought (video)

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Australopithecus sediva, from Wikipedia

New great grandmother? Science reports the discovery of an important link in human evolution

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Prof. Richard Wrangham, Harvard University. Photo: The university's public relations department

Cooking made us human

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Human development and the grass plains

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The denial of evolution - the example of the statue of the three monkeys. Photo: shutterstock

"From amoeba to man": a common and wrong conception of evolution

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A footprint in Egypt may be the oldest

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A 19th century cartoon depicting Darwin as a monkey

Asimov on - A long look at the monkey

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The exhibits are against the Bible, let's put them away

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A missing link between two of man's ancestors was discovered in Ethiopia

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Running - the key to human evolution

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Is man allowed from ape - one mutation? Now some dispute that

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A skull of an ape, considered the missing link in human evolution, has been restored

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The teeth revealed: this is an ancestor

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Humans became meat eaters about 2.5 million years ago

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Creationism or evolution

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"Thomai", 7 million years old, may be the ancestor of man

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The very idea that it would be possible to clone Lucy

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New research: the ancient man did not have an age of puberty

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Creationism (the denial of evolution): not a thieving rat, a thieving bastard

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the missing link

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