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'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago
August 17, 2010 — The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago. ... > full story -
Oldest Evidence of Stone Tool Use and Meat-Eating Among Human Ancestors Discovered: Lucy's Species Butchered Meat
August 11, 2010 — Scientists have discovered evidence that human ancestors were using stone tools and consuming meat from large mammals nearly a million years earlier than previously documented. Two fossilized bones ... > full story -
Animal Connection: New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature
July 20, 2010 — It's no secret to any dog-lover or cat-lover that humans have a special connection with animals. But in new research, a paleoanthropologist argues that this human-animal connection goes well beyond ... > full story -
North America's First Peoples More Genetically Diverse Than Thought, Mitochondrial Genome Analysis Reveals
June 28, 2010 — The initial peopling of North America from Asia occurred approximately 15,000-18,000 years ago. However, estimations of the genetic diversity of the first settlers have remained inaccurate. In a new ... > full story -
Separation Between Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens Might Have Occurred 500,000 Years Earlier, DNA from Teeth Suggests
June 23, 2010 — The separation of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens might have occurred at least one million years ago, more than 500,000 years earlier than previously believed, according to recent research in Spain ... > full story -
Humans Have a Mighty Bite, New Research Shows
June 22, 2010 — The robust jaws and formidable teeth of some of our ancestors and ape cousins may suggest that humans are wimps when it comes to producing a powerful bite: but a new study has found the opposite is ... > full story -
3.6 Million-Year-Old Relative of 'Lucy' Discovered: Early Hominid Skeleton Confirms Human-Like Walking Is Ancient
June 21, 2010 — An international team of scientists discovered and analyzed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Ethiopia. Research indicates that advanced human-like, upright walking occurred much ... > full story -
Ancient Viral Invasion Shaped Human Genome
June 7, 2010 — Scientists have discovered that viruses that "invaded" the human genome millions of years ago have changed the way genes get turned on and off in human embryonic stem ... > full story -
The Joke Is on Us: A New Interpretation of Bared Teeth in Archaeological Artifacts
May 12, 2010 — Bared teeth are a prominent and eye-catching feature on many historical and archaeological artifacts, and are commonly interpreted as representing death, aggression and the shamanic trance. But a new ... > full story -
Duties to Human Remains in Universities and Museums
May 12, 2010 — Human remains are stored in universities and museums all over the world. A recent example of genetic testing on old human remains is the results from Tutankhamon and his family. A Swedish researcher ... > full story -
Neandertals 'Hardly Differed at All' from Modern Humans
May 6, 2010 — Scientists have succeeded in obtaining important information from a tiny quantity of contaminated Neandertal DNA, amplifying and sequencing only those portions (exons) that code for proteins. This ... > full story -
Complete Neanderthal Genome Sequenced: DNA Signatures Found in Present-Day Europeans and Asians, but Not in Africans
May 6, 2010 — Researchers have produced the first whole genome sequence of the 3 billion letters in the Neanderthal genome, and the initial analysis suggests that up to 2 percent of the DNA in the genome of ... > full story
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