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A child's skull, almost 140,000 years old, was found in Israel. Researchers believe it shows interbreeding between modern ...

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Shamahi, tracing the development of Homo sapiens across 300,000 years of prehistory in the first of a five-part series, Human ...

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A 140,000-year-old hybrid child's skull found in Israel shows traits of both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, rewriting the ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...