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World's oldest human turns 116

Ethel Caterham, 116, today celebrates her birthday in Lightwater, England. Born on 21 August 1909, she is the oldest human ...
Ethel Caterham, born in 1909, has become the world's oldest living person at 116. Her life spans significant historical ...
Scientists discovered signs of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens on a 140,000-year-old skull; 'This is the ...
An unidentified early hominin fossil that might be a new species confirms that Australopithecus and Homo species lived in the ...
The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...
Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that early human groups shared similar burial practices, including deliberate graves.
The teeth also confirm that there were at least four types of hominins throughout East Africa at the time, with a fifth ...