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Ancient DNA Reveals That Some Neanderthals Were Redheads
October 26, 2007 — Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report in Science. Neanderthals' pigmentation may even have been as ... > full story -
Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'
October 21, 2007 — Adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closest extinct relatives, the Neandertals according to a new article. The human form of the gene arose much ... > full story -
Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans Detected
October 17, 2007 — Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex bladelet tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier ... > full story -
Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences
October 14, 2007 — The sequencing of Neanderthal nuclear DNA from fossil bone held promise for finally answering the question of whether the Neanderthals are ancestors of ours. However, two recent studies came to very ... > full story -
New Insights Into The Evolution Of The Human Genome
October 9, 2007 — Researchers have created the first evolutionary history of the duplications in the human genome that are partly responsible for both disease and recent genetic innovations. This work marks a ... > full story -
New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit'
September 25, 2007 — Researchers have completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the "hobbit," a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four years ago on the Indonesian island ... > full story -
Extra Gene Copies Were Enough To Make Early Humans' Mouths Water
September 14, 2007 — To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That's one interpretation of a recent discovery which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene. Humans have ... > full story -
Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel?
September 12, 2007 — The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even half the speed of modern man, new research suggests. They proposes that if early humans lacked an ... > full story -
Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution
August 31, 2007 — More than three million years ago, early hominins evolved the ability to walk upright and in doing so started us along the evolutionary path that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens. It was Darwin ... > full story -
Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
August 16, 2007 — Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its Neanderthal relative. The scientists concluded that Neanderthals did not develop their ... > full story -
New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early Evolution Of Our Genus Homo
August 13, 2007 — Two new fossils cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. One of the two fossils, an upper jaw bone of Homo habilis (KNM-ER ... > full story -
Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature
August 10, 2007 — In 1942, a human braincase was found in Romania during phosphate mining. The skull's geological age has remained uncertain. Now, new radiocarbon analysis directly dates the skull to approximately ... > full story
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