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Research combines data from fossils with climate models, revealing the effect of climate on body and brain size A well-known pattern in human evolution is an increase in body and brain size. Our species, Homo sapiens, is part of the Homo genus and emerged about 300,000 years ago. We are …

Researchers say DNA from the five fossils from Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro cave demonstrated they belonged to anatomically modern Homo sapiens. The research pushes back by thousands of years the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe. Fragmentary bone fossils and a molar found in Bulgaria dated to roughly 45,000 years ago …