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Retroviruses Shows That Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged
August 2, 2002 — Scientists in the past decade have discovered that remnants of ancient germ line infections called human endogenous retroviruses make up a substantial part of the human genome. Once thought to be ... > full story -
Large Brains Not Required? Third And Smallest Skull Of "First Eurasians" Reported In Science
July 5, 2002 — The skull and jawbone of a small, lightly-built individual, discovered at an archeological site in Dmanisi, Georgia, may call into question the prevailing idea that larger brain size was behind the ... > full story -
Nut-Cracking Chimps: First Primate Archaeological Dig Uncovers New Tool Development Links
May 24, 2002 — A study of chimpanzees' use of hammers to open nuts in western Africa may provide fresh clues to how tools developed among human ancestors. A paper published in the May 24 issue of the journal ... > full story -
Ethiopian Fossil Skull Indicates Homo Erectus Was Single, Widespread Species 1 Million Years Ago
March 25, 2002 — A million-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Ethiopia indicates that this human ancestor was a single species scattered widely throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, not two separate species, ... > full story -
Discovery Supports Theory Of A Single Species Of Human Ancestor
March 21, 2002 — The discovery of a million-year-old skull in Ethiopia indicates that a single species of human ancestor, Homo erectus, ranged from Europe to Africa to Asia in the Pleistocene era, according to the ... > full story -
Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again
March 7, 2002 — Analyses of recently derived human genetic trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, show that there were at least two major waves of human migration out of Africa. DNA ... > full story -
Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat
February 19, 2002 — University of Toronto anthropologist David Begun and his European colleagues are re-writing the book on the history of great apes and humans, arguing that most of their evolutionary development took ... > full story -
Fossil Teeth Reveal Recent Origin Of Human Growth Pattern
December 6, 2001 — The long period of development leading up to a modern human's adulthood arose relatively late in our evolutionary history, according to an analysis of growth patterns in fossil teeth in the 6 ... > full story -
Rafting Rodents From Africa May Have Been Ancestors Of South American Species
October 12, 2001 — Forty million years ago, rodents from Africa may have colonized South America by rafting or swimming across the Atlantic, Texas A&M University biologists theorize by studying the evolution of ... > full story -
Study Supports Out-Of-Africa Origin For East Asians
May 11, 2001 — An international study of Y chromosomal DNA shows that East Asian populations migrated out of Africa and suggests that little or no interbreeding of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens occurred after the ... > full story -
Skull Of New Early Human Relative Found In Kenya -- Did Humans Descend From Lucy Or From Newly Discovered Creature?
March 22, 2001 — After the partial skeleton of a 3.2-million-year-old human relative known as Lucy was found in Ethiopia in 1974, many researchers believed her species – Australopithecus afarensis – was ... > full story -
Genome Project Opens The Book On Human Evolution
February 13, 2001 — Like an enormous library, the human genome project now awaits the work of a generation of scientists who will catalogue and organize its contents and begin to read and understand its secrets. ... > full story
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