Early Human News

Posted February 3, 2009:

• Early Humans Had 'Jaws Of Steel'

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Natural Selection Not The Only Process That Drives Evolution?

Posted January 21, 2009:

• 'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human

Posted January 20, 2009:

• Adaptation Plays Significant Role In Human Evolution

Posted January 18, 2009:

• Largest-to-Date Genetic Snapshot Of Iceland 1,000 Years Ago Completed

Posted January 14, 2009:

• Evolution Of New Brain Area Enables Complex Movements

Posted January 5, 2009:

• African Thicket Rat Malaria Linked To Virulent Human Form

Posted December 30, 2008:

• Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows

Posted December 22, 2008:

• Snails And Humans Use Same Genes To Tell Right From Left

Posted December 21, 2008:

• Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-Dwelling Human Ancestors

Posted December 19, 2008:

• Earth's Original Ancestor Was 'LUCA'
• 'Hobbit' Fossils Represent A New Species, Concludes Anthropologist

Posted December 12, 2008:

• Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

Posted December 11, 2008:

• The Last Neandertals? Late Neandertals And Modern Human Contact In Southeastern Iberia

Posted November 19, 2008:

• Floppy-Footed Gibbons Help Us Understand How Early Humans May Have Walked

Posted November 14, 2008:

• Pelvis Dated To 1.2 Million Years Ago Shows Ancestors May Have Been Born With Big Heads

Posted November 6, 2008:

• DNA Chunks, Chimps And Humans: Marks Of Differences Between Human And Chimp Genomes

Posted November 3, 2008:

• Tools Give Earlier Date For ‘modern-Thinking’ Humans

Posted November 1, 2008:

• Last Of His Kind? Researchers Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of Ancient Mummy, The Tyrolean Iceman

Posted October 28, 2008:

• Fire Out Of Africa: A Key To The Migration Of Prehistoric Humans

Posted October 19, 2008:

• Genetic-Based Human Diseases Are An Ancient Evolutionary Legacy, Research Suggests

Posted October 6, 2008:

• Gene Expression In Alligators Suggests Birds Have 'Thumbs'

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Short RNAs Show A Long History: MicroRNAs Found In Animals That Appeared A Billion Years Ago

Posted September 17, 2008:

• Roman York Skeleton Could Be Early TB Victim

Posted September 16, 2008:

• New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants

Posted September 10, 2008:

• Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Childbirth Was Already Difficult For Neanderthals

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution

Posted September 7, 2008:

• Long-Held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research

Posted August 26, 2008:

• New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth

Posted August 22, 2008:

• Tracing Origins Of Critical Step In Animal Evolution: The Development Of Nerves

Posted August 8, 2008:

• Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-Year-Old Bone

Posted August 5, 2008:

• Schizophrenia: Costly By-Product Of Human Brain Evolution?

Posted July 16, 2008:

• Europe's Ancestors: Cro-Magnon 28,000 Years Old Had DNA Like Modern Humans

Posted July 2, 2008:

• Newcomer In Early Eurafrican Population?

Posted June 24, 2008:

• Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution

Posted June 23, 2008:

• Britain's Last Neanderthals Were More Sophisticated Than We Thought

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Humor Shown To Be Fundamental To Our Success As A Species

Posted June 12, 2008:

• Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory

Posted June 10, 2008:

• New Research Refutes Myth Of Pure Scandinavian Race

Posted June 5, 2008:

• Rewriting Greenland's Immigration History

Posted June 3, 2008:

• Evolution Of An Imprinted Domain In Mammals

Posted May 30, 2008:

• Did Walking On Two Feet Begin With A Shuffle?

Posted May 24, 2008:

• New Statistical Method Reveals Surprises About Our Ancestry

Posted May 18, 2008:

• New Tool To Understand Evolution Of Multi-Domain Genes Developed

Posted May 16, 2008:

• 'Mitochondrial Eve' Research: Humanity Was Genetically Divided For 100,000 Years

Posted May 15, 2008:

• Mice Can Do Without Humans' Most Treasured Genes

Posted May 12, 2008:

• Genetics Confirm Oral Traditions Of Druze In Israel

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