Early Human News

Posted April 10, 2009:

• Ancestors Of African Pygmies And Neighboring Farmers Separated Around 60,000 Years Ago

Posted March 23, 2009:

• DNA Duplication: A Mechanism For 'Survival Of The Fittest'

Posted March 19, 2009:

• Genomic Fossils In Lemurs Shed Light On Origin And Evolution Of HIV And Other Primate Lentiviruses
• Optimal Running Speed Associated With Evolution Of Early Human Hunting Strategies

Posted March 17, 2009:

• Elephant Shark Genome Sequence Leads To Discovery Of Color Perception In Deep-Sea Fish

Posted March 12, 2009:

• 'Peking Man' Older Than Thought; Somehow Adapted To Cold

Posted March 5, 2009:

• Dead Gene Comes Back To Life In Humans

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Humans Walked On Modern Feet 1.5 Million Years Ago, Fossil Footprints Show

Posted February 25, 2009:

• DNA Identification Of Czar's Children Available

Posted February 19, 2009:

• Single-Celled Algae Took The Leap To Multicellularity 200 Million Years Ago

Posted February 17, 2009:

• Anthropologist's Studies Of Childbirth Bring New Focus On Women In Evolution

Posted February 14, 2009:

• Mixed Population Provides Insights Into Human Genetic Makeup

Posted February 12, 2009:

• High-Tech Tests Allow Anthropologists To Track Ancient Hominids Across The Landscape
• Evolutionary Link To Modern-Day Obesity, Other Problems
• Genetics Research Sheds Light On Evolution Of The Human Diet
• Draft Version Of The Neanderthal Genome Completed

Posted February 11, 2009:

• On The Origin Of Subspecies
• Y Chromosome And Surname Study Challenges Infidelity 'Myth'
• Pubic Hair Provides Evolutionary Home For Gorilla Lice

Posted February 5, 2009:

• 'Nonsense' In Our Genes: One In 200 Human Genes Superfluous?

Posted February 3, 2009:

• Early Humans Had 'Jaws Of Steel'

Posted January 26, 2009:

• Natural Selection Not The Only Process That Drives Evolution?

Posted January 20, 2009:

• 'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human

Posted January 16, 2009:

• Adaptation Plays Significant Role In Human Evolution
• Largest-to-Date Genetic Snapshot Of Iceland 1,000 Years Ago Completed

Posted January 12, 2009:

• Evolution Of New Brain Area Enables Complex Movements

Posted December 29, 2008:

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

Posted December 23, 2008:

• DNA Profiling For Tracing Parental Ancestry Becomes More Accurate And Reliable

Posted December 22, 2008:

• African Thicket Rat Malaria Linked To Virulent Human Form

Posted December 21, 2008:

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

Posted December 19, 2008:

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

Posted December 17, 2008:

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

Posted December 11, 2008:

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

Posted December 9, 2008:

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

Posted November 17, 2008:

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

Posted November 13, 2008:

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

Posted November 5, 2008:

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

Posted October 31, 2008:

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

Posted October 30, 2008:

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

Posted October 27, 2008:

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

Posted October 16, 2008:

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

Posted October 7, 2008:

• DNA Could Reveal Your Surname

Posted October 3, 2008:

• Gene Expression In Alligators Suggests Birds Have 'Thumbs'

Posted October 1, 2008:

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

Posted September 16, 2008:

• Roman York Skeleton Could Be Early TB Victim

Posted September 15, 2008:

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

Posted September 9, 2008:

• Anthropologists Develop New Approach To Explain Religious Behavior

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