Early Human News

Posted November 3, 2006:

• Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key To Evolution Of The Human Brain
• New Phylum Sheds Light On Ancestor Of Animals, Humans
• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted October 30, 2006:

• Phoenix Rising: Scientists Resuscitate A 5 Million-Year-Old Retrovirus

Posted October 25, 2006:

• Discovery Of A Molecular Mechanism Underlying Limb Architecture

Posted October 24, 2006:

• Viral Marker Of Human Migration Suspect

Posted October 17, 2006:

• New Dwarf Buffalo Discovered By Chance In The Philippines

Posted October 13, 2006:

• Comparing Chimp, Human DNA

Posted October 12, 2006:

• Few Clues About African Ancestry To Be Found In Mitochondrial DNA

Posted October 9, 2006:

• Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent A New Species Of Hominid

Posted October 6, 2006:

• Hail To The Hornworts: New Plant Family Tree Sheds Light On Evolution Of Life Cycles

Posted October 3, 2006:

• Uncovering DNA's 'Sweet' Secret

Posted October 2, 2006:

• Anthropologist Challenges Species Identification Of Ancient Child Skeleton Found In Ethiopia

Posted September 22, 2006:

• Ancient Birds Flew On All-Fours

Posted September 20, 2006:

• Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution

Posted September 14, 2006:

• Rodent's Bizarre Traits Deepen Mystery Of Genetics, Evolution

Posted September 10, 2006:

• Cognitive Strategy Shared By Human Infants And Great-Ape Kin

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'

Posted August 25, 2006:

• No Hobbits In This Shire: Researchers Say Skeletal Remains Are Pygmy Ancestors

Posted August 24, 2006:

• How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

Posted August 17, 2006:

• Newly Discovered Gene May Hold Clues To Evolution Of Human Brain Capacity

Posted July 26, 2006:

• Scientists Discover Evolutionary Origin Of Fins, Limbs

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted June 23, 2006:

• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed

Posted June 13, 2006:

• Some Genetic Research Is Best Done Close To The Evolutionary Home

Posted June 7, 2006:

• 100,000 Year-Old DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertal's Genetic Diversity

Posted May 19, 2006:

• Scientists Scuttle Claims That 'Hobbit' Fossil From Flores, Indonesia, Is A New Hominid

Posted May 18, 2006:

• Human And Chimp Genomes Reveal New Twist On Origin Of Species

Posted May 12, 2006:

• Massive Duplication Of Genes May Solve Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery' About Flowering Plants

Posted May 5, 2006:

• Man May Have Caused Pre-Historic Extinctions

Posted May 2, 2006:

• T Cell 'Brakes' Lost During Human Evolution

Posted April 12, 2006:

• Hominid Fossils From Ethiopia Link Ape-Men To More Distant Human Ancestors

Posted March 3, 2006:

• A New Tree Of Life Allows A Closer Look At The Origin Of Species

Posted February 28, 2006:

• Joining The Hunt: New Study Investigates Role Of 'Showoff Hypothesis' In Social Decisions

Posted February 21, 2006:

• There's Something Fishy About Human Brain Evolution

Posted February 20, 2006:

• Early Human Ancestors Walked On The Wild Side

Posted February 9, 2006:

• New Analysis Shows Three Human Migrations Out Of Africa

Posted January 25, 2006:

• Humans Have A Strong Desire To Help Each Other, But Is Spite Also Part Of The Human Condition?

Posted January 17, 2006:

• Nearly Half Of Ashkenazi Jews Descended From Four 'Founding Mothers'

Posted January 6, 2006:

• Redating Of The Latest Neandertals In Europe

Posted December 22, 2005:

• Scientists Narrow The Time Limits For The Human And Chimpanzee Split

Posted December 21, 2005:

• Scientists Sequence DNA Of Woolly Mammoth

Posted December 12, 2005:

• Key Brain Regulatory Gene Shows Evolution In Humans

Posted November 30, 2005:

• Alleged 40,000-Year-Old Human Footprints In Mexico Much, Much Older Than Thought

Posted November 24, 2005:

• Earliest Animals Had Human-Like Genes

Posted November 7, 2005:

• Modern Humans Arrival In South Asia May Have Led To Demise Of Indigenous Populations

Posted October 26, 2005:

• Flipped Genetic Sequences Illuminate Human Evolution And Disease

Posted October 23, 2005:

• Natural Selection Has Strongly Influenced Recent Human Evolution, Study Finds

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