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South Africa: Ancient DNA Unearths Fascinating Secrets. But What About the Ethics?
The Conversation Africa, 9 October 2017
Ancient DNA is starting to reveal the secrets of how people emerged from, moved into or moved around Africa. Human skeletons from Saldanha Bay in South Africa's Western Cape… Read more »
Making Sure Descendants Know All About Their African Ancestors
"African scientists need to be part of ancestral research and African descendant communities need to be able to access the information discovered," Alan G Morris of the University of Cape Town has written for The Conversation.
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12 October 2017
The Origin of Us - Spread of Humans, Ancient African Languages, Stone Tools and Cognition
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- The University of California Television
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One of the enduring questions of human origins is when, where and how we "Behaviorally Modern Humans" emerged and why and how we eventually replaced ... see more »
From left, the skulls of the "Taung child," "Mrs Ples", both found in South Africa, and that of a modern human.
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8 June 2017
Are These the Oldest Modern Human Fossils Ever Found?
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- National Geographic
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Paleoanthropologists digging at a site in Morocco discovered what may be the oldest well-dated Homo sapiens fossils ever found. see more »
The cranium of Malapa hominid 1 (MH1) from South Africa, named "Karabo" (file photo).
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Wits paleoanthropologist Professor Lee Berger said that the age of the Homo naledi was "startlingly young" and that it is likely the species lived alongside Homo sapiens. Read more »
