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Shoulder bones fuel debate

By Stephen Ornes / November 16, 2012

This shoulder blade is from a 3-year-old humanlike female who lived more than 3 million years ago. Scientists are studying the fossil to learn whether the creature climbed trees. Credit: Courtesy of Zeresenay Alemseged/Dikika Research Project

Fossil shoulder blades suggest an ancient humanlike species may have been at home in the trees as well as on the ground

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged adaption, Alemseged, anthropology, Australopithecus afarensis, Big Man, California Academy of Sciences, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, David Green, fossils, getinvolved, great apes, hominids, human origins, humanlike, Lucy, Midwestern University, paleontology, primate evolution, scapula, Selam, shoulder blade, topstories, trees, Yohannes Haile-Selassie

DNA hints at ancient cousins

By Roberta Kwok / August 17, 2012

By analyzing the DNA of some modern-day Africans, scientists have found that our ancestors may have mated with an unknown, humanlike species thousands of years ago. Credit: Courtesy of Sarah Tishkoff

Scientists find evidence of an extinct humanlike species within modern-day Africans

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged Africans, Cameroon, DNA, getinvolved, Hadza, Harvard Medical School, hominids, Homo sapiens sapiens, Joseph Pickrell, modern humans, Neandertals, Pygmies, Sandawe, Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania