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Human evolution
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/Extending back for five to seven million years to the time when our ancestors took their first two-legged steps on the path toward becoming human.
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Australopithecus afarensis
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/australopithecus-afarensis/This species is one of the best known of our ancestors.
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The first modern humans in Southeast Asia
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/the-first-modern-humans-in-southeast-asia/Archaeological evidence shows that modern humans had reached Southeast Asia by 70,000 years ago, however the oldest securely dated modern human remains are only about 40,000 years old.
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Homo neanderthalensis – The Neanderthals
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-neanderthalensis/Neanderthals co-existed with modern humans for long periods of time before eventually becoming extinct about 28,000 years ago. The unfortunate stereotype of these people as dim-witted and brutish cavemen still lingers in popular ideology but research has revealed a more nuanced picture.
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Homo heidelbergensis
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-heidelbergensis/These humans evolved in Africa but by 500,000 years ago some populations were in Europe. They lived and worked in co-operative groups, hunted large animals and made a variety of tools including stone hand axes and wooden spears set with stone spearheads.
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1912 - Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ in England.
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/piltdown-man-skull/1912 - Piltdown Man ‘discovered’ in England.
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Our Global Neighbours: Pieces from La Ferrassie
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/our-global-neighbours-pieces-from-la-ferrassie/The role of a French Palaeolithic site in the story of human evolution
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New evidence in search for the mysterious Denisovans
https://australian.museum/about/organisation/media-centre/new-evidence-denisovans/An international group of researchers led by the University of Adelaide has conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and the ancient humans known from fossil records in Island Southeast Asia.
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