Human Evolution News

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Early Human Populations Evolved Separately For 100,000 Years

Posted April 21, 2008:

• Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Upright Walking Began 6 Million Years Ago, Thigh Bone Comparison Suggests

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Skulls Of Modern Humans And Ancient Neanderthals Evolved Differently Because Of Chance, Not Natural Selection

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-bodied Humans

Posted February 20, 2008:

• Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows

Posted February 4, 2008:

• Gene Variants May Help To Distribute The Work Of Evolution Between Men And Women

Posted February 3, 2008:

• You Are What You Eat: Some Differences Between Humans And Chimpanzees Traced To Diet

Posted December 22, 2007:

• Geologists Say 'Wall Of Africa' Allowed Humanity To Emerge

Posted December 15, 2007:

• Losses Of Long-established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution

Posted December 8, 2007:

• Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues

Posted December 5, 2007:

• Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast

Posted November 30, 2007:

• How Our Ancestors Were Like Gorillas

Posted November 28, 2007:

• Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait

Posted October 29, 2007:

• New Ideas About Human Migration From Asia To Americas

Posted October 26, 2007:

• Ancient DNA Reveals That Some Neanderthals Were Redheads

Posted October 21, 2007:

• Neandertals, Humans Share Key Changes To 'Language Gene'

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Earliest Evidence Of Modern Humans Detected

Posted October 14, 2007:

• Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences

Posted October 9, 2007:

• New Insights Into The Evolution Of The Human Genome

Posted September 25, 2007:

• New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit'

Posted September 14, 2007:

• Extra Gene Copies Were Enough To Make Early Humans' Mouths Water

Posted September 12, 2007:

• Was Ability To Run Early Man's Achilles Heel?

Posted August 31, 2007:

• Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution

Posted August 16, 2007:

• Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals

Posted August 13, 2007:

• New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views On Early Evolution Of Our Genus Homo

Posted August 10, 2007:

• Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature

Posted July 31, 2007:

• Genomics Study Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of Unique Human Traits

Posted July 19, 2007:

• New Research Proves Single Origin Of Humans In Africa

Posted July 17, 2007:

• Study Identifies Energy Efficiency As Reason For Evolution Of Upright Walking

Posted July 11, 2007:

• Neutral Evolution Has Helped Shape Our Genome

Posted June 28, 2007:

• Book Makes Case For Using Evolution In Everyday Life

Posted June 25, 2007:

• Human-like Altruism Shown In Chimpanzees

Posted June 22, 2007:

• Human Immunity To 'Viral Fossil' May Help Explain Our Vulnerability To HIV

Posted June 20, 2007:

• Neanderthal Man Was An Innovator

Posted June 19, 2007:

• Remains Of Earliest Giant Panda Discovered

Posted June 1, 2007:

• Lessons From The Orangutans: Upright Walking May Have Begun In The Trees

Posted May 10, 2007:

• New Research Confirms 'Out Of Africa' Theory Of Human Evolution

Posted May 9, 2007:

• Gene Mutation Linked To Cognition Is Found Only In Humans

Posted May 2, 2007:

• Climate Change Pushed Neanderthal Into Extinction In Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Researcher Says

Posted April 24, 2007:

• The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals

Posted April 21, 2007:

• Human-chimp Gene Study Upsets Long-held View

Posted April 13, 2007:

• Human-Chimp Differences Uncovered With Analysis Of Rhesus Monkey Genome

Posted April 3, 2007:

• Bony Vertebrate Evolution: Elephant Sharks Closer To Humans Than Teleost Fish

Posted March 27, 2007:

• Man's Earliest Direct Ancestors Looked More Apelike Than Previously Believed

Posted March 23, 2007:

• Global Warming Could Be Reversing A Trend That Led To Bigger Human Brains

Posted March 22, 2007:

• Scientist Develops New Mathematical Model To Study Disease Genetics And Evolution

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