Human evolution

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A research team led by German and Bulgarian scientists has claimed that the genealogical split between the great apes and humans happened several hundred thousand years earlier than originally thought, and in an entirely different location.

REAL LIFE JURASSIC PARK?

Plenty of previous evidence shows that humans hunted mammoths during the late Pleistocene, with some studies arguing that our species hastened the mammoths’ extinction.

However, a Siberian discovery shows a mammoth hunt high in the Arctic around 45,000 years ago, almost ten millennia before humans were thought to have walked that area.

BELGRADE - Internet entrepreneur Istok Pavlovic published on his Facebook profile a very interesting post that reveals, in details, the
greatest prejudice that Serbs have darker skin and hair due to mixing with the Turks, writes Serbian daily "Kurir".

Neanderthals may not have been as lucky as our human ancestors in the long run, but that doesn’t mean the two subspecies didn’t get lucky.

If you think your own face has changed through the years, look at this mind-numbing 90-second time lapse video that shows millions of years worth of evolution. Watch paleoartist John Gurche’s vision of his own direct ancestry in under 2 minutes. Learn how he draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors.

A 430,000-year-old case may be the world's oldest murder mystery, NBC news has reported.