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Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki

An artist’s impression of a group of Gigantopithecus blacki within a forest in southern China. Image credit: Garcia / Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University.

Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate species ever known to have lived.

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Upright Walking and Larger Brains May Explain Why 90% of Humans Favor Their Right Hand

Reconstruction of Homo erectus.

New research from the University of Oxford and the University of Reading suggests bipedalism and expanding brain size helped drive the overwhelming dominance of right-handedness in humans.

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