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The Great Human Migration

Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world

Also see: Were "Hobbits" Human? | Showing Their Age | Guy Gugliotta on "The Great Human Migration"

Were "Hobbits" Human?

Debate rages over an Indonesian fossil find

Engraved Ochre found at Blombos Cave

Showing Their Age

Dating the Fossils and Artifacts that Mark the Great Human Migration

The Smithsonian's Crystal Skull

How the museum's quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived

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July 2008

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