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Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Known almost entirely from genetic evidence, Denisovans were a distinct human species that lived across Asia. Fossils, DNA, ...

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Scientists working in a Moroccan quarry have unearthed remarkable hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years, potentially rewriting our understanding of where modern humans, Neanderthals, and ...

On Morocco’s Atlantic coast, an unremarkable cave has preserved an unusually clear snapshot of deep human history. Fossils from the site have now been dated to about 773,000 years ago, with rare ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

The hominin fossils discovered in the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I in Casablanca, Morocco, are providing new evidence about the deep origins of Homo sapiens, suggesting that the ancestral ...

Proteins and ancient DNA extracted from the Harbin cranium show that the so-called Dragon Man belonged to the Denisovans. The discovery confirms the first known Denisovan skull and deepens ...