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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 -
Genomics Study Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of Unique Human Traits
July 31, 2007 — Researchers report the results of a large-scale, genome-wide study to investigate gene copy number differences among ten primate species, including humans. In the report, the scientists speculate how ... > full story -
New Research Proves Single Origin Of Humans In Africa
July 19, 2007 — New research has proved the single origin of humans theory by combining studies of global genetic variations in humans with skull measurements across the world. The research represents a final blow ... > full story -
Study Identifies Energy Efficiency As Reason For Evolution Of Upright Walking
July 17, 2007 — A new study provides support for the hypothesis that walking on two legs, or bipedalism, evolved because it used less energy than quadrupedal knucklewalking. Humans walking on two legs only used ... > full story -
Neutral Evolution Has Helped Shape Our Genome
July 11, 2007 — Johns Hopkins researchers have added to the growing mound of evidence that many of the genetic bits and pieces that drive evolutionary changes do not confer any advantages or disadvantages to humans ... > full story -
Book Makes Case For Using Evolution In Everyday Life
June 28, 2007 — Evolution is not just about human origins, dinosaurs and fossils, says Binghamton University evolutionist David Sloan Wilson. It can also be applied to almost every aspect of human life, as he ... > full story
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