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Two ancient human skulls. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The genetic secret revealed: Humans evolved from two separate ancient species

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New research at the University of Cambridge reveals that the modern human genome was created as a result of a merger between two ancient populations, which separated about 1.5 million years ago and reunited about 300 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
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Things people know: why shave?

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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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Mycelia's jaw. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

The oldest human fossil outside of Africa is found in Israel

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A skull from Jebel Ayehud. Source: Ryan Somma.

Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of the origin of modern man

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A poster showing the theme of the 2017 Dan David Prize: Archeology and Natural Sciences. From the Dan David Prize website

Two of the researchers who strengthened the connection between the sciences and archeology won the Dan David prize for the dimension of past time

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Prof. Israel Finkelstein, winner of the corresponding prize in 2006, described the revolution passing through the world of archeology and how two researchers from the natural sciences won the Dan David Prize for 2017 in the past tense dimension in the field
Comparison between modern man and Homo erectus. Illustration: shutterstock

The most invasive species

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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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Homo floresiensis (left) had a brain about a third the size of the brain of its contemporary Homo sapiens (right). Credit: Peter Brown

Hobbit or modern man? / Kate Wong

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Where is the human race? Illustration: shutterstock

The future of the future - when will we split? / Yankee Margalit

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

who is who

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

Discovery: For about 100 thousand years the human race was split in two

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

IBM and National Geographic launch a first-of-its-kind research project: Mapping Earth's Population Processes

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

Research: Man adopted "modern" behavior already 70 thousand years ago

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

The fifty founding fathers

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

Old Asians, new Europeans

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

the missing link

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