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New Fossil Study Rejects "Eve Theory" And Supports Diverse Ancestry Of Modern Humans
January 11, 2001 — The ancestors of modern humans came from many different regions of the world, not just a single area, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current (Jan. 12) issue of Science. ... > full story -
Diet Diverged In Earliest Human Ancestors, Researchers Find
December 21, 2000 — Dietary diversity distinguished the diets of our earliest human ancestors, starting a trend that eventually led to the ability of human beings to colonize different types of terrain all over the ... > full story -
Ancient Feathered Animal Challenges Dinosaur-Bird Link
June 25, 2000 — Scientists have announced the discovery of the oldest animal ever known to have feathers, which may have been the ancestor of birds but clearly was not a dinosaur - a discovery that calls into ... > full story -
Meaty Discovery: Neandertal Bone Chemistry Provides Food For Thought
June 13, 2000 — New scientific testing resolves the long-standing debate over whether the Neandertals were merely scavengers who snatched the leftovers of nature's predators or were themselves high-level ... > full story -
Images Of Evolution: DNA Leaves Fossils In The Dust
May 16, 2000 — For new clues on evolution, DNA leaves fossils in the dust. Researchers from the Institut Curie in Paris are using new methods of species comparison to track the history of human chromosomes over a ... > full story -
Researchers Find Skull Remains Pointing To First Hominids Out Of Africa
May 12, 2000 — A University of Florida anthropologist is part of an international team whose discovery of early human skull remains in the Republic of Georgia represent the earliest known human ancestors from ... > full story -
Rare Tests On Neanderthal Infant Sheds Light On Early Human Development
March 31, 2000 — Modern forensic DNA techniques normally used to determine the identity of modern humans have been applied to a Neanderthal infant. This is only the second time molecular analysis of a Neanderthal has ... > full story -
Genes Pertaining To "Maleness" Evolve More Rapidly Than Their Non-Sexual Counterparts
January 24, 2000 — Researchers at the University of Chicago report in the January 20 issue of Nature that genes pertaining to male reproduction-those involved in sperm production, transfer and morphology-evolve much ... > full story -
Big Bang Theory Of Human Evolution?
January 10, 2000 — Two million years ago somewhere in Africa, a small group of individuals became separated from other australopithecines. This population bottleneck led to a series of sudden, interrelated ... > full story -
Scientists Document Most Recent Date For Neandertals
October 27, 1999 — An international team of scientists has documented through new radiocarbon dating that Neandertals roamed central Europe as recently as 28,000 years ago, representing the latest date ever recorded ... > full story -
Discovery Of Oldest Dinosaur Bones Reported In Science
October 22, 1999 — A team of paleontologists has discovered jaws from two of the oldest dinosaurs ever discovered, and the remains of eight other prehistoric animals, in a rich bed of fossils in Madagascar, providing a ... > full story -
Primitive Primate Makes The Case For Asian Anthropoid Origins
October 15, 1999 — Forty million year old fossil teeth and jaw fragments from a new species of early primate found in Myanmar lend support to the idea that the ancestor of all monkeys and apes lived in Asia instead of ... > full story
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