Early Human News

Posted March 2, 2012:

• Nearby Chimpanzee Populations Show Much Greater Genetic Diversity Than Distant Human Populations

Posted February 25, 2012:

• European Neanderthals Were on the Verge of Extinction Even Before the Arrival of Modern Humans

Posted February 17, 2012:

• Linking Human Evolution and Climate Change
• Meet Plants' and Algae's Common Ancestor: Primitive Organisms Not Always So Simple, Researcher Says

Posted February 13, 2012:

• More Than Just Packaging, the Genome Affects the Way Our Genes Change and Develop, Researcher Says

Posted February 7, 2012:

• Entire Genome of Extinct Human Decoded from Fossil
• Neanderthal Demise Due to Many Influences, Including Cultural Changes

Posted February 3, 2012:

• To Make a Social Robot, Key Is Satisfying the Human Mind

Posted February 1, 2012:

• Extended Synaptic Development May Explain Our Cognitive Edge Over Other Primates

Posted January 31, 2012:

• New Species of Ancient Crocodile Discovered; 'Sheildcroc' Was Ancestor of Today's Species

Posted January 30, 2012:

• Chimp 'X Factor': Extensive Adaptive Evolution Specifically Targeting the X Chromosome of Chimpanzees

Posted January 26, 2012:

• Following Genetic Footprints out of Africa: First Modern Humans Settled in Arabia

Posted January 24, 2012:

• Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries Engineered Stone Tools, Anthropologists Discover

Posted January 23, 2012:

• Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave: 33,000 Years Old

Posted January 13, 2012:

• Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered

Posted January 12, 2012:

• New Insights Into an Ancient Mechanism of Mammalian Evolution

Posted January 3, 2012:

• Genetic Predisposition to Disease Common in Two Supercentenarians

Posted December 29, 2011:

• I Know Something You Don't Know! Wild Chimpanzees Inform Ignorant Group Members of Danger

Posted December 19, 2011:

• Chinese Scientists Announce the First Complete Sequencing of Mongolian Genome

Posted December 14, 2011:

• Follow Your Nose: Compared to Neanderthals, Modern Humans Have a Better Sense of Smell

Posted December 12, 2011:

• Disappearance of the Elephant Caused Rise of Modern Humans: Dietary Change Led to Modern Humans in Middle East 400,000 Years Ago

Posted December 8, 2011:

• Helping Your Fellow Rat: Rodents Show Empathy-Driven Behavior, Evidence Suggests

Posted December 6, 2011:

• New Tick-Borne Disease Discovered in Sweden

Posted November 9, 2011:

• No Need to Shrink Guts to Have a Larger Brain

Posted November 2, 2011:

• Jawbone Found in England Is from the Earliest Known Modern Human in Northwestern Europe

Posted October 31, 2011:

• Shared Genes With Neanderthal Relatives: Modern East Asians Share Genetic Material With Prehistoric Denisovans

Posted October 26, 2011:

• Hear the One About Men Being Funnier Than Women? Study Shows Gender Stereotype That Men Are Funnier Than Women

Posted October 24, 2011:

• Liver Parasite Lacks Key Genes for Fatty Acid Synthesis: Genome Sequencing of Clonorchis Sinensis

Posted October 20, 2011:

• Culture in Humans and Apes Has the Same Evolutionary Roots, Researchers Show

Posted October 19, 2011:

• Blame Backbone Fractures on Evolution, Not Osteoporosis: Adaptation to Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible
• Young Human-Specific Genes Correlated With Brain Evolution
• Solving the Mysteries of Short-Legged Neandertals

Posted October 17, 2011:

• Archaeologists Find Blade 'Production Lines' Existed as Much as 400,000 Years Ago

Posted October 13, 2011:

• Preventing Dangerous Nonsense in Human Gene Expression
• Children, Not Chimps, Prefer Collaboration: Humans Like to Work Together in Solving Tasks -- Chimps Don't

Posted October 12, 2011:

• 'Dark Matter' of the Genome Revealed Through Analysis of 29 Mammals
• Researchers Reconstruct Genome of the Black Death; Bacteria Found to Be Ancestor of All Modern Plagues

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Sexual Selection by Sugar Molecule Helped Determine Human Origins, Researchers Say

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Length of Flanking Repeat Region and Timing Affect Genetic Material

Posted October 4, 2011:

• Lungfish Provides Insight to Life on Land: 'Humans Are Just Modified Fish'
• Form Follows Family -- Not Function: Humans and Chimpanzees Have Similar Long Bone Shape

Posted September 30, 2011:

• Humans and Sharks Share Immune System Feature

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Structure of a Molecular Copy Machine: How Mitochondrial Genes Are Transcribed

Posted September 25, 2011:

• Invasion of Genomic Parasites Triggered Modern Mammalian Pregnancy, Study Finds

Posted September 22, 2011:

• Evolutionary Tree of Life for Mammals Greatly Improved
• Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers
• Fluid Equilibrium in Prehistoric Organisms Sheds Light on a Turning Point in Evolution
• Asia Was Settled in Multiple Waves of Migration, DNA Study Suggests

Posted September 21, 2011:

• Using Human Genomes to Illuminate the Mysteries of Early Human History
• Climatic Fluctuations Drove Key Events in Human Evolution, Researchers Find

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