Early Human News

Posted March 17, 2005:

• Geography Predicts Human Genetic Diversity

Posted March 9, 2005:

• Retrovirus Struck Ancestors Of Chimps And Gorillas Millions Of Years Ago, But Not Ancestral Humans

Posted March 4, 2005:

• 'Hobbit' Fossil Likely Represents New Branch On Human Family Tree

Posted February 28, 2005:

• The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago

Posted February 26, 2005:

• 'Man The Hunter' Theory Is Debunked In New Book

Posted February 24, 2005:

• New Clues Add 40,000 Years To Age Of Human Species

Posted January 21, 2005:

• Anthropologists Find 4.5 Million-year-old Hominid Fossils In Ethiopia

Posted January 15, 2005:

• University Of Chicago Researchers Discovered That Humans Are A 'Privileged' Evolutionary Lineage

Posted January 12, 2005:

• Evidence That Human Brain Evolution Was A Special Event

Posted January 11, 2005:

• Ancient DNA Helps Solve The Legend Of Giant Eagles

Posted December 27, 2004:

• Researchers Shed Light On Intron Evolution

Posted December 6, 2004:

• Common Lineage Suggested For Viruses That Infect Hosts From All Three Domains Of Life

Posted November 30, 2004:

• UCLA/Emory Article Reviews How Human Brain Evolved Separately From Body

Posted November 24, 2004:

• How Running Made Us Human: Endurance Running Let Us Evolve To Look The Way We Do

Posted November 18, 2004:

• New Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago

Posted November 1, 2004:

• Darwin's Greatest Challenge Tackled: The Mystery Of Eye Evolution

Posted October 29, 2004:

• Emory Study Details Dolphin Brain Evolution For The First Time

Posted October 28, 2004:

• Skeleton Reveals Lost World Of 'Little People'

Posted October 25, 2004:

• Insects Implicated In The Evolution Of New Human Infectious Diseases

Posted October 5, 2004:

• Of Lice And Men: Parasite Genes Reveal Modern & Archaic Humans Made Contact

Posted October 4, 2004:

• Climate Change Plus Human Pressure Caused Large Mammal Extinctions In Late Pleistocene

Posted September 30, 2004:

• 'Most Recent Common Ancestor' Of All Living Humans Surprisingly Recent

Posted September 21, 2004:

• Genes Expose Secrets Of Sex On The Side

Posted September 13, 2004:

• A New Tribe?

Posted September 3, 2004:

• Neanderthal Life No Tougher Than That Of 'Modern' Inuits

Posted July 30, 2004:

• Study Finds Anti-HIV Protein Evolved Millions Of Years Before The Emergence Of AIDS

Posted July 14, 2004:

• Growth Study Of Wild Chimpanzees Challenges Assumptions About Early Humans

Posted July 6, 2004:

• Old Is Young, Study Finds: Longevity Evolved Late For Humans

Posted June 29, 2004:

• Earliest Evidence Of Hereditary Genetic Disorder Discovered

Posted April 2, 2004:

• UC San Diego Bioinformatics Experts Help Reconstruct The Genomic Makeup Of Our Ancestors

Posted March 25, 2004:

• First Protein Difference Between Humans And Primates That Correlates To Anatomical Changes In Early Hominid Fossil Record

Posted March 5, 2004:

• New Ethiopian Fossils Are From 6-million-year-old Hominid Living Just After Split From Chimpanzees

Posted February 17, 2004:

• Human Evolution At The Crossroads: Integrating Genetics And Paleontology

Posted February 16, 2004:

• Rutgers Researcher Offers A New Perspective On Human Evolution

Posted January 27, 2004:

• New Study Shows Neanderthals Were Not Our Ancestors

Posted January 22, 2004:

• Human Migration Tracked In Stanford Computer Simulation

Posted January 1, 2004:

• Scientist Challenges Interpretation Of New Find, The Oldest Primate Fossil Ever Discovered

Posted November 5, 2003:

• Stone Tool And Bone Find Earliest Ever Excavated

Posted November 3, 2003:

• Debate Heats Up On Role Of Climate In Human Evolution

Posted September 24, 2003:

• Earliest European Modern Humans Found

Posted August 7, 2003:

• Early Hominids May Have Behaved More 'Human' Than We Had Thought

Posted June 17, 2003:

• About Face: Washington University Anthropologist Sets The Record Straight Regarding Neandertal Facial Length

Posted June 12, 2003:

• 160,000-year-old Fossilized Skulls From Ethiopia Are Oldest Modern Humans

Posted May 28, 2003:

• Scientists Use DNA Fragments To Trace The Migration Of Modern Humans

Posted May 21, 2003:

• DNA Demands Chimps Be Grouped In The Human Genus, Say Wayne State Researchers

Posted April 25, 2003:

• Purdue Researchers Determine Age Of Fossilized Human Ancestor

Posted February 24, 2003:

• Rutgers' Tanzanian Fossil Reshuffles The Deck On Early Human Ancestry

Posted February 20, 2003:

• New Age For Mungo Man, New Human History

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