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Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?
December 8, 2010 — A once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa, according to a new ... > full story -
Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down
November 15, 2010 — Human childhood is considerably longer than chimpanzees, our closest-living ape relatives. A multinational team of specialists, applied cutting-edge synchrotron X-ray imaging to resolve microscopic ... > full story -
Modern Humans Mature More Slowly Than Neanderthals Did, Analysis of Teeth Suggests
November 15, 2010 — A sophisticated new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full maturity. The finding suggests that our ... > full story -
Brains of Neanderthals and Modern Humans Developed Differently
November 8, 2010 — Researchers have documented species differences in the pattern of brain development after birth that are likely to contribute to cognitive differences between modern humans and ... > full story -
World's Oldest Ground-Edge Implement Discovered in Northern Australia
November 6, 2010 — The oldest ground-edge stone tool in the world has been discovered in northern Australia, dating to 35,000 years ... > full story -
New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years
November 5, 2010 — Evolutionary divergence of humans and chimpanzees likely occurred some 8 million years ago rather than the 5 million year estimate widely accepted by scientists, a new statistical model ... > full story -
Stone Age Humans Needed More Brain Power to Make Big Leap in Tool Design
November 3, 2010 — Stone Age humans were only able to develop relatively advanced tools after their brains evolved a greater capacity for complex thought, according to a new study that investigates why it took early ... > full story -
Neanderthals Were More Promiscuous Than Modern Humans, Fossil Finger Bones Suggest
November 3, 2010 — Fossil finger bones of early human ancestors suggest that Neanderthals were more promiscuous than human populations today, researchers have ... > full story -
Origin of Skillful Stone-Tool-Sharpening Method Pushed Back More Than 50,000 Years
October 28, 2010 — A highly skillful and delicate method of sharpening and retouching stone artifacts by prehistoric people appears to have been developed at least 75,000 years ago, more than 50,000 years earlier than ... > full story -
Did Neanderthals Make Jewellery After All?
October 26, 2010 — The theory that later Neanderthals might have been sufficiently advanced to fashion jewelery and tools similar to those of incoming modern humans has suffered a setback. A new radiocarbon dating ... > full story -
Modern Humans Emerged Far Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossils from China Suggest
October 25, 2010 — An international team of researchers has discovered well-dated human fossils in southern China that markedly change anthropologists perceptions of the emergence of modern humans in the eastern Old ... > full story -
Energy Revolution Key to Complex Life: Depends on Mitochondria, Cells' Tiny Power Stations
October 20, 2010 — The evolution of complex life is strictly dependent on mitochondria, the tiny power stations found in all complex cells, according to a new ... > full story
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