Analysis of the fossils indicates the male Homo heidelbergensis was over age 45 and suffered from a spinal deformity that would have caused him a lot of pain and forced him to stoop over. It's not ...

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Potential human ancestor Homo heidelbergensis used this 480,000-year-old bone hammer to create flint tools. UCL Institute of Archaeology Some 480,000 years ago, a group of 30 to 40 early hominins met ...

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Piecing together the story of human evolution is an undeniably complex task. However, new research has brought us closer to understanding how early humans in Britain may have been related to other ...

Scientists are still learning about the origins of our species, Homo sapiens, which is thought to have arisen during what was called the Middle Pleistocene and is now known as the Chibanian period, ...