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Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

The Pleistocene is a geologic epoch within the Quaternary Period, spanning roughly 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, characterized by repeated glacial–interglacial cycles driven by orbital ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) participated in a study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, on human teeth unearthed at the Hualongdong site in Anhui ...

What makes our species unique compared to other hominins? High profile genetic, fossil and material culture discoveries present scientists working in the Late Pleistocene with an ever-more complex ...