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Footprints found in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging everything we thought we knew about the first humans in North ...

New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

A newly uncovered trove of ancient stone tools in northwest Kenya suggests early humans didn't use them sporadically but routinely over hundreds of thousands of years, at the very emergence of ...