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DNA Extracted From Woolly Mammoth Hair
September 27, 2007 — Scientists discovered that hair shafts provide an ideal source of ancient DNA -- a better source than bones and muscle for studying the genome sequences of extinct animals. They sequenced the entire ... > full story -
New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit'
September 25, 2007 — Researchers have completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the "hobbit," a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four years ago on the Indonesian island ... > full story -
Extra Gene Copies Were Enough To Make Early Humans' Mouths Water
September 14, 2007 — To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That's one interpretation of a recent discovery which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene. Humans have ... > full story -
Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel?
September 12, 2007 — The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even half the speed of modern man, new research suggests. They proposes that if early humans lacked an ... > full story -
Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Yucca Leaves Spat Out
September 6, 2007 — In a groundbreaking study, two Harvard scientists have for the first time extracted human DNA from ancient artifacts. The work potentially opens up a new universe of sources for ancient genetic ... > full story -
Mice Thrive Missing Ancient DNA Sequences
September 6, 2007 — Ultraconserved elements are DNA sequences, hundreds of base pairs long, that are 100-percent identical in mice, rats and humans. Their perfect conservation for over 80 million years was thought due ... > full story -
Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution
August 31, 2007 — More than three million years ago, early hominins evolved the ability to walk upright and in doing so started us along the evolutionary path that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens. It was Darwin ... > full story -
Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
August 16, 2007 — Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its Neanderthal relative. The scientists concluded that Neanderthals did not develop their ... > full story -
Facial Attraction: Choice Of Sexual Partner Shaped The Human Face
August 15, 2007 — Men with large jaws, flaring cheeks and large eyebrows are sexy, at least in the eyes of our ancestors, researchers at the Natural History Museum have discovered. Facial attractiveness played a major ... > full story -
New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early Evolution Of Our Genus Homo
August 13, 2007 — Two new fossils cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. One of the two fossils, an upper jaw bone of Homo habilis (KNM-ER ... > full story -
Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature
August 10, 2007 — In 1942, a human braincase was found in Romania during phosphate mining. The skull's geological age has remained uncertain. Now, new radiocarbon analysis directly dates the skull to approximately ... > full story -
Genomics Study Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of Unique Human Traits
July 31, 2007 — Researchers report the results of a large-scale, genome-wide study to investigate gene copy number differences among ten primate species, including humans. In the report, the scientists speculate how ... > full story
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