Human Ancestors

The Dawn of Fire: Humanity’s Earliest Triumph

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The Dawn of Fire: How Early Humans Mastered Flame

Imagine a world shrouded in perpetual twilight, a time before the comforting glow of a hearth, before the sizzle of meat over an open flame. This was the world of our earliest ancestors, a world where cold nights brought not just discomfort, but genuine peril. Then, something extraordinary happened. A spark, a flicker, a controlled … Read more

Unearthing Ancient Diets: How Stable Isotopes Reveal the Truth About Our Ancestors

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How Stable Isotopes Reveal Ancient Human and Neanderthal Diets

Imagine a world millions of years ago, a time when the very definition of ‘human’ was still taking shape. Our ancestors, and their close cousins the Neanderthals, roamed landscapes vastly different from our own. What did they eat? How did they survive? For centuries, these questions lingered, shrouded in the mists of time, with only … Read more