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Africa no longer the cradle of humanity according to secrets of new species skull remains

A stunning archaeological find in China has sent shockwaves through the scientific community after experts revealed the Yunxian 2 skull could completely rewrite the story of human origins. The ...
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Scientists found 2.4-million-year-old stone tools in Algeria that challenge East Africa’s claim as the cradle of humanity.

In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of stone tools at Ain Boucherit, Algeria, dated to approximately 2.4 million years ago. The find shocked the world, as it predates many similar tools from ...
The Conversation

Taung child: the controversial story of the fossil discovery that proved humanity’s common origins in Africa – podcast

Dipuo Winnie Kgotleng has received funding from the Palaeo-Research Institute at the University of Johannesburg. Christa Kuljian has received funding from the Academic and Non-Fiction Authors ...
National Geographic news

Telling the story of humanity’s origins in Africa—this time, for kids

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species. The illustrator Nikkolas Smith, surrounded by his original ...
PBS

Episode Three : Into the Tropics

So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people – Europeans – endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs and steel ...