Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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Study finds plant poison was used on ancient arrows, pointing to sophisticated hunting methods used 60,000 years ago ...

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The findings reveal that humans were using sophisticated hunting tools thousands of years before previously thought ...

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One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now northern Italy. Soon after, some scavengers arrived to dine on this huge ...

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...