In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And the apes are people! John and Hank teach you about how humans evolved, and the sort of tricks they picked up along the way like complex toolContinue reading “Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6”
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Scientists in Morocco unearth Stone Age hand-axe site dating back 1.3 million years
Archaeologists in Morocco have announced the discovery of North Africa’s oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3 million years, an international team reported Wednesday. The find pushes back by hundreds of thousands of years the start date in North Africa of the Acheulian stone tool industry associated with a key human ancestor, HomoContinue reading “Scientists in Morocco unearth Stone Age hand-axe site dating back 1.3 million years”