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A researcher's-eye view along a shelving unit of hominin cranial casts under bright daylight, one cast lifted mid-comparison against a lit reference tray.

Comparing the Main Approaches to Hominin Evolution and Deep Prehistory

Fossils, ancient DNA, and stone tools each reconstruct human origins from a different kind of evidence, with different reach and different blind spots — and none of the three can replace the other two.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 28, 2026 · 12 min read

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