Early Human News

Posted September 28, 2010:

• 'Hobbit' Was an Iodine-Deficient Human, Not Another Species, New Study Suggests

Posted September 23, 2010:

• Why Are There No Hyenas in Europe?
• City Living Helped Humans Evolve Immunity to Tuberculosis and Leprosy, New Research Suggests

Posted September 21, 2010:

• Neanderthals More Advanced Than Previously Thought: They Innovated, Adapted Like Modern Humans, Research Shows

Posted September 14, 2010:

• Adapting to Darkness: How Behavioral and Genetic Changes Helped Cavefish Survive Extreme Environment

Posted September 5, 2010:

• Role of Key Genetic Catalyst for Human Diversity Discovered

Posted September 2, 2010:

• Brainy Worms: Scientists Uncover Counterpart of Cerebral Cortex in Marine Worms

Posted August 31, 2010:

• Evolution Rewritten, Again and Again

Posted August 17, 2010:

• Dwindling Green Pastures, Not Hunting, May Have Killed Off the Mammoth
• 'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago

Posted August 11, 2010:

• Oldest Evidence of Stone Tool Use and Meat-Eating Among Human Ancestors Discovered: Lucy's Species Butchered Meat

Posted August 4, 2010:

• Sponge Shines Light on Life's Origin: Genome Connects the Dots Between Amphimedon, Animal Descendants
• Genome of Ancient Sponge Reveals Origins of First Animals, Cancer

Posted July 27, 2010:

• Evolutionary Surprise: Freedom of Neck Played Major Role in Human Brain Evolution, Research Suggests

Posted July 26, 2010:

• Segmentation Is the Secret Behind the Extraordinary Diversification of Animals

Posted July 20, 2010:

• Animal Connection: New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Origins of Multicellularity: All in the Family

Posted June 28, 2010:

• North America's First Peoples More Genetically Diverse Than Thought, Mitochondrial Genome Analysis Reveals

Posted June 23, 2010:

• Separation Between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens Might Have Occurred 500,000 Years Earlier, DNA from Teeth Suggests

Posted June 22, 2010:

• Humans Have a Mighty Bite, New Research Shows

Posted June 21, 2010:

• 3.6 Million-Year-Old Relative of 'Lucy' Discovered: Early Hominid Skeleton Confirms Human-Like Walking Is Ancient

Posted June 7, 2010:

• Ancient Viral Invasion Shaped Human Genome

Posted June 1, 2010:

• Jumping Genes Provide Extensive 'Raw Material' for Evolution, Study Finds

Posted May 27, 2010:

• Out of the Woods for 'Ardi': Early Human Habitat Was Savanna, Not Forest, Scientists Argue

Posted May 13, 2010:

• It Was Brawn Over Beauty in Human Mating Competition, Anthropologist Says

Posted May 12, 2010:

• First Large-Scale Formal Quantitative Test Confirms Darwin's Theory of Universal Common Ancestry

Posted May 6, 2010:

• Neandertals 'Hardly Differed at All' from Modern Humans
• Complete Neanderthal Genome Sequenced: DNA Signatures Found in Present-Day Europeans and Asians, but Not in Africans
• Neandertal Genome Sequence Published in Science
• Neanderthal Genome Yields Insights Into Human Evolution and Evidence of Interbreeding With Modern Humans

Posted April 13, 2010:

• Creepy Crawly Cockroach Ancestor Revealed in New 3-D Model

Posted April 8, 2010:

• New Hominid Shares Traits With Homo Species: Fossil Find Sheds Light on the Transition to Homo Genus from Earlier Hominids

Posted April 6, 2010:

• Darwin's Finch and the Evolution of Smell

Posted March 25, 2010:

• New Human Species Discovered: Mitochondrial Genome of Previously Unknown Hominins from Siberia Decoded

Posted March 19, 2010:

• Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-Dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal

Posted March 17, 2010:

• Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate
• Evolution of Primordial Chemical Sensor, Nociception, Sniffed out

Posted March 15, 2010:

• When Did the First 'Modern' Human Beings Appear in the Iberian Peninsula?

Posted March 3, 2010:

• Strategic Research Program Needed to Determine Whether, How Past Climate Influenced Human Evolution

Posted March 2, 2010:

• Modern Man Found to Be Generally Monogamous, Moderately Polygamous
• Genetic Footprint of Natural Selection

Posted March 1, 2010:

• Ancient DNA from Rare Fossil Reveals That Polar Bears Evolved Recently and Adapted Quickly
• If Bonobo Kanzi Can Point as Humans Do, What Other Similarities Can Rearing Reveal?

Posted February 27, 2010:

• DNA Sequence of Extinct Ancient Cattle Uncovered
• 'Pompeii-Like' Excavations Tell Us More About Toba Super-Eruption

Posted February 10, 2010:

• Waking the Dead: Scientists Reconstruct Nuclear Genome of Extinct Human Being

Posted February 5, 2010:

• Did Bacteria Develop Into More Complex Cells Much Earlier in Evolution Than Thought?

Posted February 1, 2010:

• DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry

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