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Evolution - the rise of man

The human jaw from Mycelia Cave. Photo: Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University

200,000-year-old fossils from a cave in Carmel indicate that man's departure from Africa occurred precisely during the Ice Age

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A girl plays with dolls. - from Jumpstory.com

Things Yoram knows: why do girls play with dolls and boys with cars?

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language teaching. Illustration: shutterstock

The origin of the language pathway in the human brain is from at least 25 million years ago

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Vitruvian man: the proportions of the human body according to Leonardo da Vinci. The length of the hand is two thirds of the length of the leg.

Things that Yoram knows: why are the legs long?

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The computer simulation of the groundwater level in the eastern aquifer of the Dead Sea. Photo: Yehuda Levy, Hebrew University

Ancient and large springs in the Jordan Valley were significant for the development of the agricultural revolution in the world

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Skull of a Neanderthal who was hit in the head. Evidence of ancient violence. Photo: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Were other human species the first victims of the sixth mass extinction?

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A photo of Manot Cave with the marking of the area where some of the teeth were found. Photo: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz

Researchers from Tel Aviv University found teeth of a modern man and a Neanderthal man from about 40,000 years ago in Menot Cave in the Galilee

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Skull of a modern man (back) and a Neanderthal man. Photo: shutterstock

Did diseases spread by Homo sapiens eventually cause the extinction of the Neanderthals?

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Signs of dissection, cutting and shattering on limb bones of donkeys from Kesem Cave. Photo: Ruth Blasko

Man stored food long-term as early as 400 years ago

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A prehistoric family scene showing a baby being fed with a baby bottle is similar to the ones we have examined. Christian Bissig / Archäologie der Schweiz, courtesy of the author

Discovery of Prehistoric Baby Bottles Shows Babies Were Fed Cow's Milk 5,000 Years Ago

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An illustration depicting Denisovan man. Courtesy of Maayan Harel and CELL

The tip of a pinky, that's all the researchers from the Hebrew University needed to reconstruct what the Denisovan man looked like

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Findings from the Ein Kashish excavation. Above - animal bones. Below - items carved from flint. Photo - Prof. Arala Hobars

The Neanderthals lived in stable settlement systems for a long time before disappearing from our region

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Experimental archaeology: a tuber cutting experiment using a small recycled spatter. Above on the right, the way the sprayer was held in the hand during the experiment (credit: Flavia Venditti)

Researchers have identified remains of animals and plants from hundreds of thousands of years ago on tiny flint vessels

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Neanderthal man tries to hunt a mammoth. Illustration: shutterstock

Neanderthals and mammoths shared a genetic load of adaptation to cold conditions

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global warming. Illustration: shutterstock

How the brain's psychological biases prevent us from acting on climate change

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The eye and the optic nerves in the cerebral cortex. Illustration: shutterstock

Man is allowed: Weizmann Institute scientists have found what is special about the human brain

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Neanderthal man. From a 2009 Russian textbook on human evolution. Neveshkin Nikolay / Shutterstock.com Photo: shutterstock

On the Neanderthals and their extinction

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The future of human evolution. Illustration: shutterstock

Human evolution is still happening and may even be accelerating

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Claire McFadden, a researcher in the Department of Social Sciences works in the lab with 4,000-year-old skulls. Photo: Australian National University ANU

The agricultural revolution caused a population explosion in Southeast Asia 4,000 years ago

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"Green Islands" in Savannah. Photo: Prof. Ruth Shakh-Gross, from the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa

3000-year-old dung reveals: how man changed the savannah for the better

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DNA tests made it possible to discover a mixture of Neanderthals and Denisovans

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Comparison between modern man and Homo erectus. Illustration: shutterstock

Humans did not develop from one source, but survived from a variety of populations that intermingled

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human machine interface. Illustration: shutterstock

The next stage in human evolution - part XNUMX human machine interface

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human empowerment. Illustration: shutterstock

The next step in human evolution - Part I: Where is the technology?

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Mycelia's jaw. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

The oldest human fossil outside of Africa is found in Israel

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