Scientists have discovered a species of human ancestors called 'homo bodoensis' that lived around half a million years ago.
The study was conducted by an international team of researchers from the University of Winnipeg and the University of Belgrade. It has been published in the journal Nature.
According to lead author Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, ''Talking about human evolution during this time period became impossible due to the lack of proper terminology that acknowledges human geographic variation.''
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Exploring Aquaterra , the drowned continent walked by our ancestors
A continent s worth of land inhabited by ancient people has been submerged by rising seas over the past 20,000 years. Now we re discovering its secrets Humans 14 April 2021
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BEAUTIFUL corals, graceful sea turtles and 4-metre-long tiger sharks. It is easy to see why tourists flock to the Dampier Archipelago in north-west Australia to dive among the thrilling – if occasionally intimidating – marine life. But these seas contain something that isn’t advertised by tour guides. When Chelsea Wiseman and her colleagues went diving here in 2019, they found stone tools on the seabed. The artefacts were last touched by human hands at least 7000 years ago, before the sea rose, the land drowned and the sharks moved in.
visit ancient greece. or hang out with our early human ancestors. or see dinosaurs up close. he s not the only one who d like to travel in time the british writer h.g. wells popularized the concept with his 895 novel of a time machine in which an inventor travels to bleak worlds in a distant future. in 1905 albert einstein published his special theory of relativity showing that space and time are not separate quantities but aspects of the same thing and shrink and expand relative to one another. 10 years after that in his general theory of
humans were a motley bunch that s why researchers tend to see the human family tree as more of a bush with many branches. archeologists are always on earth thing finds indicating that our human ancestors were scattered all over the world from south africa to china and the balkans. but paleoanthropologists broadly agree that africa is the cradle of human kind and specifically the opiah it was here that the oldest remains belong to the genus homo were found there two point eight million years old. only evolved a few hundred thousand years ago the only living being capable of reflecting on its evolution.