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Scientists Release "More Accurate" Representations of Ancient Hominids

Medicine & Technology Apr 06, 2021

Pushing for more accurate depictions of the ancient human ancestors, scientists published new standards for representing extinct hominids in a bid to overcome artistic bias.

Ancient Man May Have Been More Tactile Than We Thought—Stone-Age Brains & Modern-Day Hands

Jan 23, 2015

Anthropologists now believe that some of the earliest human ancestors who lived 3.2 million years ago had hand structures much like our own and were able to grasp and use tools, even if they had not invented them yet.

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Scientists Release "More Accurate" Representations of Ancient Hominids

Ancient Man May Have Been More Tactile Than We Thought—Stone-Age Brains & Modern-Day Hands

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