Early Human News

Posted June 1, 2011:

• Ancient Hominid Males Stayed Home While Females Roamed, Study Finds

Posted May 31, 2011:

• Researchers Solve Mammoth Evolutionary Puzzle: The Woollies Weren't Picky, Happy to Interbreed

Posted May 25, 2011:

• Unique Canine Tooth from 'Peking Man' Found in Swedish Museum Collection

Posted May 18, 2011:

• Standing Up to Fight: Does It Explain Why We Walk Upright and Why Women Like Tall Men?

Posted May 13, 2011:

• Last Neanderthals Near the Arctic Circle?

Posted May 2, 2011:

• No Nuts for 'Nutcracker Man': Early Human Relative Apparently Chewed Grass Instead

Posted April 20, 2011:

• Evolution of Human 'Super-Brain' Tied to Development of Bipedalism, Tool-Making

Posted April 19, 2011:

• Right-Handedness Prevailed 500,000 Years Ago

Posted March 17, 2011:

• A New Evolutionary History of Primates

Posted March 14, 2011:

• Neanderthals Were Nifty at Controlling Fire

Posted March 9, 2011:

• Missing DNA Helps Make Us Human

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Stone Tools Influenced Hand Evolution in Human Ancestors, Anthropologists Say

Posted March 3, 2011:

• Human Ancestors Lived on Shaky Ground

Posted February 28, 2011:

• Function of 'Junk DNA' in Human Genes

Posted February 24, 2011:

• Homoplasy: A Good Thread to Pull to Understand the Evolutionary Ball of Yarn

Posted February 20, 2011:

• Skin Color: Handy Tool for Teaching Evolution?

Posted February 17, 2011:

• Subtle Shifts, Not Major Sweeps, Drove Human Evolution

Posted February 14, 2011:

• Earliest Humans Not So Different from Us, Research Suggests

Posted February 10, 2011:

• New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species
• Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, for Walking

Posted February 9, 2011:

• Simple Marine Worms Distantly Related to Humans
• Ancient Teeth Raise New Questions About Origins of Modern Humans

Posted January 26, 2011:

• Genetic Archaeology Finds Parts of Human Genome More Closely Related to Orangutans Than Chimps
• Orangutan DNA More Diverse Than Human's, Remarkably Stable Through the Ages
• Genome Analysis Outlines Variations in Orangutans of Borneo, Sumatra

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Longevity Unlikely to Have Factored Into the Extinction of Neanderthals

Posted December 30, 2010:

• Was Israel the Birthplace of Modern Humans?
• Neandertals’ Extinction Not Caused by Deficient Diets, Tooth Analysis Shows

Posted December 22, 2010:

• Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative

Posted December 21, 2010:

• Rodents Were Diverse and Abundant in Prehistoric Africa When Our Human Ancestors Evolved

Posted December 16, 2010:

• Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones

Posted December 8, 2010:

• Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?

Posted November 15, 2010:

• Synchrotron Reveals Human Children Outpaced Neanderthals by Slowing Down
• Modern Humans Mature More Slowly Than Neanderthals Did, Analysis of Teeth Suggests

Posted November 8, 2010:

• Brains of Neanderthals and Modern Humans Developed Differently

Posted November 6, 2010:

• World's Oldest Ground-Edge Implement Discovered in Northern Australia

Posted November 5, 2010:

• New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years

Posted November 3, 2010:

• Stone Age Humans Needed More Brain Power to Make Big Leap in Tool Design
• Neanderthals Were More Promiscuous Than Modern Humans, Fossil Finger Bones Suggest

Posted October 28, 2010:

• Origin of Skillful Stone-Tool-Sharpening Method Pushed Back More Than 50,000 Years

Posted October 26, 2010:

• Did Neanderthals Make Jewellery After All?

Posted October 25, 2010:

• Modern Humans Emerged Far Earlier Than Previously Thought, Fossils from China Suggest

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Energy Revolution Key to Complex Life: Depends on Mitochondria, Cells' Tiny Power Stations

Posted October 12, 2010:

• Rotten Experiments Help to Create Picture of Our Early Ancestors

Posted October 6, 2010:

• Long-Extinct Passenger Pigeon Finds a Place in the Family Tree

Posted October 5, 2010:

• Neanderthals Had Feelings Too, Say Researchers

Posted September 29, 2010:

• First Genetic Evidence for Loss of Teeth in the Common Ancestor of Baleen Whales

Posted September 28, 2010:

• 19-Million-Year-Old Genomic Fossils of Hepatitis B-Like Viruses in Songbirds

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