Human Evolution News
April 29, 2024
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Apr. 17, 2024 Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a 'bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- according to a new study that revises the ...
Mar. 25, 2024 A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location serving as a hub for Homo sapiens during the early ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, suggest these predecessors to modern humans had a ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Babies playfully tease others as young as eight months of age. Since language is not required for this behavior, similar kinds of playful teasing might be present in non-human animals. Now cognitive biologists and primatologists have documented ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 Researchers have identified a variant in the gene TBX1 as key in the development of the unique morphology at the base of the skull. TBX1 is present at higher levels in humans than in closely related ...
Feb. 7, 2024 A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately 50,000 to 40,000 years ago, coinciding with the dispersals of Homo ...
Jan. 31, 2024 Archaeologists have debated whether Neanderthals or modern humans made stone tools that are found at sites across northern Europe and date from about ...
Jan. 29, 2024 A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about the origins of bipedal locomotion courtesy of a novel method: ...
Dec. 1, 2023 Research suggests that Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Scientists should seek answers hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries ...
Nov. 21, 2023 Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. The findings reveal that the ...
Nov. 13, 2023 A new study casts doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335-241,000 years ago, deliberately buried their dead ...
Nov. 9, 2023 A recent study sheds new light on the ecological adaptability of early humans at the time when they first expanded their range outside Africa, 2--1 million years ...
Nov. 8, 2023 A new analysis of lice genetic diversity suggests that lice came to the Americas twice -- once during the first wave of human migration across the ...
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Nov. 6, 2023 Paleontologists have shed light on the long-standing saga of Ekgmowechashala, based on fossil teeth and jaws found in both Nebraska and China. Ekgmowechashala is the last primate found in the fossil ...
Oct. 18, 2023 About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years in the western part of the Eurasian continent, gave way to Homo sapiens, who had arrived from Africa. This ...
Oct. 16, 2023 A new study has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species that lived about 12 million years ago. The species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, may be crucial to ...
Oct. 10, 2023 People who carry three gene variants that have been inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new ...
Oct. 4, 2023 Scientists have found early human migrants left Africa for Eurasia, across the Sinai peninsula and on through Jordan, over 80-thousand years ago. Researchers have proved there was a ...
Sep. 22, 2023 A new study appearing in Science Advances compares Pleistocene vegetation communities around Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, to the oldest archeological traces of Homo sapiens in the region. The ...
Sep. 20, 2023 Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new ...
Sep. 5, 2023 Researchers report that the flexible shoulders and elbows that allow us to throw a football or reach a high shelf may have evolved as a natural braking system that let our primate ancestors get out ...
Aug. 14, 2023 Recent paleogenomic research revealed that interbreeding was common among early human species. However, little was known about when, where, and how often this hominin interbreeding took place. Using ...
Aug. 10, 2023 A new study finds that past changes in atmospheric CO2 and corresponding shifts in climate and vegetation played a key role in determining when and where early human species ...
Aug. 10, 2023 A new study finds that around 1.12 million years ago a massive cooling event in the North Atlantic and corresponding shifts in climate, vegetation and food resources disrupted early human occupation ...
June 26, 2023 Researchers have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans' close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one ...
June 21, 2023 Fifteen years of archaeological work in the Tam Pa Ling cave in northeastern Laos has yielded a reliable chronology of early human occupation of the site. The team's excavations through the ...
June 20, 2023 Research sheds light on human evolution, and demonstrates an approach for identifying significant differences in how genes are used between closely-related ...
First Hominin Muscle Reconstruction Shows 3.2 Million-Year-Old 'Lucy' Could Stand as Erect as We Can
June 14, 2023 Digital modelling of legendary fossil's soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles that allowed fully erect ...
June 8, 2023 Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how ...
June 7, 2023 Curly hair does more than simply look good -- it may explain how early humans stayed cool while conserving water, according to researchers who studied the role human hair textures play in regulating ...
May 31, 2023 Geneticists have unearthed a major event in the ancient history of sturgeons and paddlefish that has significant implications for the way we understand evolution. They have pinpointed a previously ...
May 17, 2023 In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of ...
May 11, 2023 A new study finds that early human species adapted to mosaic landscapes and diverse food resources, which would have increased our ancestor's resilience to past shifts in ...
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