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What Happened To Eyes During The Mummification Process? And Why Sometimes It Involved Onionsancient egypt mummy eyes

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What Happened To Eyes During The Mummification Process? And Why Sometimes It Involved Onionsancient egypt mummy eyes
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What Happened To Eyes During The Mummification Process? And Why Sometimes It Involved Onions

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300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human AncestorHomo Heidelbergensis skull

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300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human AncestorHomo Heidelbergensis skull
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300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human Ancestor

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Very First Humans To Make And Use Tools Imported Their Stones 3 Million Years AgoExamples of Oldowan tools

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Very First Humans To Make And Use Tools Imported Their Stones 3 Million Years AgoExamples of Oldowan tools
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Very First Humans To Make And Use Tools Imported Their Stones 3 Million Years Ago

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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Suggest Neanderthals May Have Made Projectile WeaponsArrowheads from Obi-Rakhmat

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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Suggest Neanderthals May Have Made Projectile WeaponsArrowheads from Obi-Rakhmat
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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Suggest Neanderthals May Have Made Projectile Weapons

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New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo Over 2.6 Million Years AgoA reconstruction of the head of an Australopithecus afarensis

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New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo Over 2.6 Million Years AgoA reconstruction of the head of an Australopithecus afarensis
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New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo Over 2.6 Million Years Ago

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Neolithic Cannibals In Spain Ate Their Enemies As A Form Of “Ultimate Elimination”Bone of human child eaten by cannibals

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Neolithic Cannibals In Spain Ate Their Enemies As A Form Of “Ultimate Elimination”Bone of human child eaten by cannibals
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Neolithic Cannibals In Spain Ate Their Enemies As A Form Of “Ultimate Elimination”

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We May Finally Know Where The "Hobbit" Humans Came From1.5-million-year-old stone tool from Sulawesi

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We May Finally Know Where The "Hobbit" Humans Came From1.5-million-year-old stone tool from Sulawesi
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We May Finally Know Where The "Hobbit" Humans Came From

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This Small Tweak To Brain Chemistry May Have Given Homo Sapiens The Competitive EdgeAn outdated model of the human brain and head from the early 20th century.

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This Small Tweak To Brain Chemistry May Have Given Homo Sapiens The Competitive EdgeAn outdated model of the human brain and head from the early 20th century.
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This Small Tweak To Brain Chemistry May Have Given Homo Sapiens The Competitive Edge

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Humans And Neanderthals Hooked Up Three Times. Here’s Where It HappenedNeanderthal man

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Humans And Neanderthals Hooked Up Three Times. Here’s Where It HappenedNeanderthal man
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Humans And Neanderthals Hooked Up Three Times. Here’s Where It Happened

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What Can Spain's "Tunnel Of Bones" Tell Us About The Fate Of Human Species On The Brink Of Extinction?neanderthals gathered around a fire

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What Can Spain's "Tunnel Of Bones" Tell Us About The Fate Of Human Species On The Brink Of Extinction?neanderthals gathered around a fire
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What Can Spain's "Tunnel Of Bones" Tell Us About The Fate Of Human Species On The Brink Of Extinction?

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Prehistoric Humans Began Eating Tubers 700,000 Years Before Our Teeth Evolved To Do SoHomo rudolfensis skull

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Prehistoric Humans Began Eating Tubers 700,000 Years Before Our Teeth Evolved To Do SoHomo rudolfensis skull
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Prehistoric Humans Began Eating Tubers 700,000 Years Before Our Teeth Evolved To Do So

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Why Is The Great Rift Valley So Important In Our Understanding Of Human Evolution?herto 1 skull next to modern human skull

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Why Is The Great Rift Valley So Important In Our Understanding Of Human Evolution?herto 1 skull next to modern human skull
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Why Is The Great Rift Valley So Important In Our Understanding Of Human Evolution?

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New Study Unearths Humanity's "Hidden" Crossings Out Of AfricaThe Gulf of Aqaba

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New Study Unearths Humanity's "Hidden" Crossings Out Of AfricaThe Gulf of Aqaba
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New Study Unearths Humanity's "Hidden" Crossings Out Of Africa

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Neanderthals May Have Feasted On Maggots, Which They Harvested From Rotting FleshNeanderthals sat around a fire with an animal, maybe a deer, on a spit roast

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Neanderthals May Have Feasted On Maggots, Which They Harvested From Rotting FleshNeanderthals sat around a fire with an animal, maybe a deer, on a spit roast
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Neanderthals May Have Feasted On Maggots, Which They Harvested From Rotting Flesh

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Ötzi The Iceman’s DNA Reveals He Belonged To A Previously Unknown Genetic LineageA photo showing a model reconstruction of what Ötzi may have looked like. He appears like a grizzled middle-aged man with a long bears and thin-though long hair. His skin is tanned and he is portrayed without another clothes on his upper body.

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Ötzi The Iceman’s DNA Reveals He Belonged To A Previously Unknown Genetic LineageA photo showing a model reconstruction of what Ötzi may have looked like. He appears like a grizzled middle-aged man with a long bears and thin-though long hair. His skin is tanned and he is portrayed without another clothes on his upper body.
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Ötzi The Iceman’s DNA Reveals He Belonged To A Previously Unknown Genetic Lineage

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