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Scientists claim 'Lucy' may not be our direct ancestor after all, stoking fierce debate

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.
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Science history: Anthropologist sees the face of the 'Taung Child' — and proves that Africa was the cradle of humanity — Dec. 23, 1924

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Two ancient human species came out of Africa together, not one, suggests new study

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
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Human EEG and artificial neural networks reveal disentangled representations and processing timelines of object real-world size and depth in natural images

Neural and computational evidence reveals that real-world size is a temporally late, semantically grounded, and hierarchically stable dimension of object representation in both human brains and ...