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Stone tools show humans in India survived the cataclysmic Toba eruption 74,000 years ago
The plume of the eruption punched more than 30 km into the sky and blanketed much of India and Africa in a layer of ash.

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Supernova may have led to early humans walking upright, a radical study suggests
The supernovae reportedly caused an electron-surge in the atmosphere that led to bipedalism in humans.

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Welcome to the family Homo luzonensis: Dig finds new species of early human
The newly-discovered Homo luzonensis has a foot bone unlike any known human contemporaries.