Human Evolution News

Posted February 7, 2012:

• Entire Genome of Extinct Human Decoded from Fossil
• Neanderthal Demise Due to Many Influences, Including Cultural Changes

Posted January 30, 2012:

• Chimp 'X Factor': Extensive Adaptive Evolution Specifically Targeting the X Chromosome of Chimpanzees

Posted January 26, 2012:

• Following Genetic Footprints out of Africa: First Modern Humans Settled in Arabia

Posted January 24, 2012:

• Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries Engineered Stone Tools, Anthropologists Discover

Posted January 13, 2012:

• Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered

Posted January 12, 2012:

• New Insights Into an Ancient Mechanism of Mammalian Evolution

Posted December 22, 2011:

• Cultural Diversification Also Drives Human Evolution

Posted December 19, 2011:

• Chinese Scientists Announce the First Complete Sequencing of Mongolian Genome

Posted December 14, 2011:

• Follow Your Nose: Compared to Neanderthals, Modern Humans Have a Better Sense of Smell

Posted December 12, 2011:

• Disappearance of the Elephant Caused Rise of Modern Humans: Dietary Change Led to Modern Humans in Middle East 400,000 Years Ago

Posted November 9, 2011:

• No Need to Shrink Guts to Have a Larger Brain

Posted November 3, 2011:

• Evolution During Human Colonizations: Selective Advantage of Being There First

Posted October 31, 2011:

• Shared Genes With Neanderthal Relatives: Modern East Asians Share Genetic Material With Prehistoric Denisovans

Posted October 19, 2011:

• Blame Backbone Fractures on Evolution, Not Osteoporosis: Adaptation to Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible
• Young Human-Specific Genes Correlated With Brain Evolution

Posted October 17, 2011:

• Archaeologists Find Blade 'Production Lines' Existed as Much as 400,000 Years Ago

Posted October 10, 2011:

• Sexual Selection by Sugar Molecule Helped Determine Human Origins, Researchers Say

Posted October 4, 2011:

• Lungfish Provides Insight to Life on Land: 'Humans Are Just Modified Fish'

Posted September 22, 2011:

• Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers
• Asia Was Settled in Multiple Waves of Migration, DNA Study Suggests

Posted September 21, 2011:

• Using Human Genomes to Illuminate the Mysteries of Early Human History
• Climatic Fluctuations Drove Key Events in Human Evolution, Researchers Find

Posted September 15, 2011:

• Human-Chimp Evolutionary Divergence: Methylation and Gene Sequence Co-Evolved, Study Suggests

Posted September 8, 2011:

• Australopithecus Sediba Paved the Way for Homo Species, New Studies Suggest

Posted September 7, 2011:

• Endangered Horse Has Ancient Origins and High Genetic Diversity, New Study Finds

Posted September 6, 2011:

• Jumping Gene's Preferred Targets May Influence Genome Evolution

Posted September 5, 2011:

• Ancient Humans Were Mixing It Up: Anatomically Modern Humans Interbred With More Archaic Hominin Forms While in Africa

Posted August 31, 2011:

• Humans Shaped Stone Axes 1.8 Million Years Ago: Advanced Tool-Making Methods Pushed Back in Time

Posted August 25, 2011:

• Interbreeding Between Modern Humans and Evolutionary Cousins Gave Healthy Immune System Boost to Human Genome, Study Finds

Posted August 9, 2011:

• New Insights Into the How the Powerhouse of the Cell Works

Posted August 3, 2011:

• Six Million Years of Savanna: Grasslands, Wooded Grasslands Accompanied Human Evolution

Posted July 28, 2011:

• Fall of the Neanderthals: Volume of Modern Humans Infiltrating Europe Cited as Critical Factor

Posted July 19, 2011:

• Ancient Footprints Show Human-Like Walking Began Nearly 4 Million Years Ago
• Evolution of the Evolutionarily Minded

Posted July 18, 2011:

• Non-Africans Are Part Neanderthal, Genetic Research Shows

Posted July 13, 2011:

• African and Non-African Populations Intermixed Well After Migration out of Africa 60,000 Years Ago, Genome Studies Show

Posted June 29, 2011:

• Human Ancestor Older Than Previously Thought; Finding Offers New Insights Into Evolution

Posted June 21, 2011:

• Cutting Edge Training Developed the Human Brain 80,000 Years Ago

Posted May 31, 2011:

• Researchers Solve Mammoth Evolutionary Puzzle: The Woollies Weren't Picky, Happy to Interbreed

Posted May 25, 2011:

• Unique Canine Tooth from 'Peking Man' Found in Swedish Museum Collection

Posted May 13, 2011:

• Last Neanderthals Near the Arctic Circle?

Posted May 2, 2011:

• No Nuts for 'Nutcracker Man': Early Human Relative Apparently Chewed Grass Instead

Posted April 19, 2011:

• Right-Handedness Prevailed 500,000 Years Ago

Posted March 17, 2011:

• A New Evolutionary History of Primates

Posted March 14, 2011:

• Neanderthals Were Nifty at Controlling Fire

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Stone Tools Influenced Hand Evolution in Human Ancestors, Anthropologists Say

Posted February 22, 2011:

• Origins of Farming in Europe Result of Human Migration and Cultural Change, Study Suggests

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