Homo erectus

Two Homo erectus individuals sitting around a campfire. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How Homo erectus survived in harsh desert conditions over a million years ago

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New evidence reveals that Homo erectus was able to survive in extreme environments like deserts as early as 1.2 million years ago, challenging the notion that only Homo sapiens was such an adaptable creature.
The site of Ovadia near the Sea of ​​Galilee, a million and a half years ago. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Once there was a paradise here with giraffes, tigers, hippos and elephants

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The world-important prehistoric site, the Ovadia National Park in Emek Yardam, which is the oldest in Israel (about 1.6 million years ago) and one of the oldest in the world outside of Africa, was inaugurated. * There was a meeting between
A herd of elephants illustration: depositphotos.com

The mystery of the prehistoric quarrying sites has been solved: the connection between man, the elephant and the source of water

Why did the ancient man return again and again, over hundreds of thousands of years, to the same quarry sites? It turns out that the secret lies in the migration routes of the elephants
The Homo erectus tribe participates in the hunt. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Continuing the Tracing of Human Descent: The Impact of Climate on Out-of-Africa Migration

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Sediment studies in the Mediterranean reveal the existence of a green corridor in the Sahara desert that emerged at the exact time when our ancestors migrated from Africa about 2.1 million years ago
The cover of the book The Fate of Humanity - The Keeper of the Key

"The Fate of Mankind: The Keeper of the Key" - a new science fiction book

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The book's cover illustrator is veteran comic book artist Roger Bonet, who has worked with Marvel and DC Comics on a variety of well-known titles such as "Iron Man," "The Avengers," "Spider-Man," "Nightwing" and "Batman" * Excerpt from the book
Analysis of 10,000-year-old skeleton findings in the Judean Desert in the laboratory of Prof. Israel Hershkowitz, Tel Aviv University

Talking bones

Complete human skeletons may testify to the existence of different human groups in the Land of Israel 100,000 years ago and more
Paleolithic diet. Illustration: shutterstock

The face of the flesh-eating man

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An elephant's rib with cut marks on it, together with flint tools including a hand stone as found in the excavation at the Ravadi site. Photo: Dr. Ran Barkai, Tel Aviv University

Israeli researchers have found the earliest animal fat discovered so far on flint vessels half a million years old

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Joel only with a skull from 1.8 million years ago that he uncovered, as part of an international research team, in Demanisi, Georgia. This is the earliest evidence of the departure of hominids from Africa.

The human messenger race / conversation with Professor Yoel Rak

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Homo erectus, and the timeline of human development. Illustration: shutterstock

Where did we come from - if I had a hammer / Ian Tattersall

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Parable of the evolutionary tree. Illustration: shutterstock

Welcome to the family - making order in the evolutionary tree of the human family / Bernard Wood

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Another angle of view of the meteor that hit Russia on Friday, 15/2/2013, from a YouTube video

The events of 2013 in science: the meteorite impact in Russia; The skull in Georgia; home-printed gun;

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A new classification of the early human species. Skull no. 5 at the time of its discovery. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Georgia

The skull in Georgia: a head is always a beginning

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A stranger in a strange land / Kate Wong

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Homo georgus - an individual that split from Homo erectus and which was discovered in Georgia in 2013. Prof. Yoel Reck from Tel Aviv University is a partner in the discovery. Photo: Tel Aviv University

A complete skull was discovered, which is the earliest evidence of human presence outside of Africa

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Oldubai Gorge, Tanzania. Photo: Gail Ashley, Rutgers University

A frequently changing environment in East Africa accelerated human evolution

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Has a new cousin of Adam been discovered?

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The lower part of the Wonderwork Cave in South Africa that was excavated revealed the remains of bonfires that were a year old. Photo: University of Toronto and the Hebrew University

Evidence of the use of fire from a million years ago

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Prof. Avi Gopher. Photo: Magic Cave Excavation Project

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have solved the mystery of the appearance of early modern man in Israel - as early as 400,000 years ago

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Neanderthal man - from Wikipedia, illustration from the 19th century Public domain image

who is who

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Prof. Richard Wrangham, Harvard University. Photo: The university's public relations department

Cooking made us human

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Human development and the grass plains

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The invention of the wheel, its effects on humanity and why zebras don't have wheels

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

New fossils change the order of the human species as it was considered until now

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A 19th century cartoon depicting Darwin as a monkey

Asimov on - A long look at the monkey

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By ELApro - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36550614

The exhibits are against the Bible, let's put them away

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This is what the evangelicals in Kenya want to do to the findings of Dr. Richard Leakey, who dug in Kenya and discovered fossils of some of the pre-human species
Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Just because you have a head the size of a grapefruit doesn't mean you're not human

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Sex and the Savannah - the third chapter in the book "The Human Instinct" by Robert Winston, part one

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Remains of a dwarf human race have been discovered that lived in Indonesia until 12 thousand years ago

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Who developed the scrapers and blades - modern man, the Neanderthals or another type of man

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The very idea that it would be possible to clone Lucy

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

An ancient human skeleton from Australia challenges the theory that man originated in Africa

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