Human Evolution News

Posted March 14, 2007:

• How Long Is A Child A Child? Human Developmental Patterns Emerged More Than 160,000 Years Ago

Posted March 12, 2007:

• These Legs Were Made For Fighting: Human Ancestors Had Short Legs For Combat, Not Just Climbing

Posted March 7, 2007:

• Man's Best Friend Lends Insight Into Human Evolution

Posted March 6, 2007:

• Two-step Process Filters Evolution Of Genes Of Human And Chimpanzee

Posted March 1, 2007:

• Ancient Retrovirus Is Resurrected

Posted February 28, 2007:

• Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions

Posted February 16, 2007:

• Out Of Africa -- Bacteria, As Well: Homo Sapiens And H. Pylori Jointly Spread Across The Globe

Posted February 13, 2007:

• Chimp Stone Age: West African Chimpanzees Have Been Cracking Nuts With Stone Tools For Thousands Of Years

Posted February 8, 2007:

• Prehistoric Origins Of Stomach Ulcers Uncovered

Posted January 29, 2007:

• Anthropologist Confirms 'Hobbit' Indeed A Separate Species

Posted January 24, 2007:

• First Genetic Evidence Of Long-lived African Presence Within Britain

Posted December 20, 2006:

• Human-chimp Difference May Be Bigger

Posted December 8, 2006:

• Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line

Posted December 5, 2006:

• Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals

Posted November 30, 2006:

• World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago

Posted November 27, 2006:

• Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew

Posted November 24, 2006:

• Genetic Variation: We're More Different Than We Thought

Posted November 17, 2006:

• Unraveling Where Chimp And Human Brains Diverge

Posted November 16, 2006:

• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies

Posted November 10, 2006:

• Varied Diet Of Early Hominid Casts Doubt On Extinction Theory

Posted November 6, 2006:

• More Human-Neandertal Mixing Evidence Uncovered

Posted November 3, 2006:

• Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key To Evolution Of The Human Brain

Posted October 25, 2006:

• Viral Marker Of Human Migration Suspect

Posted October 13, 2006:

• Comparing Chimp, Human DNA

Posted October 9, 2006:

• Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent A New Species Of Hominid

Posted October 3, 2006:

• Uncovering DNA's 'Sweet' Secret

Posted September 21, 2006:

• Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered: Australopithecus Afarensis Child Sheds Light On Human Evolution

Posted September 10, 2006:

• Cognitive Strategy Shared By Human Infants And Great-ape Kin

Posted September 8, 2006:

• Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'

Posted August 25, 2006:

• No Hobbits In This Shire: Researchers Say Skeletal Remains Are Pygmy Ancestors

Posted August 2, 2006:

• Genetic Research Reinforces Theory Of Evolution

Posted July 20, 2006:

• Neandertal Genome To Be Deciphered

Posted June 24, 2006:

• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed

Posted June 7, 2006:

• 100,000 Year-old DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertal's Genetic Diversity

Posted May 19, 2006:

• Scientists Scuttle Claims That 'Hobbit' Fossil From Flores, Indonesia, Is A New Hominid

Posted May 18, 2006:

• Human And Chimp Genomes Reveal New Twist On Origin Of Species

Posted April 13, 2006:

• Hominid Fossils From Ethiopia Link Ape-men To More Distant Human Ancestors

Posted March 4, 2006:

• A New Tree Of Life Allows A Closer Look At The Origin Of Species

Posted February 22, 2006:

• There's Something Fishy About Human Brain Evolution

Posted February 10, 2006:

• New Analysis Shows Three Human Migrations Out Of Africa

Posted January 25, 2006:

• Humans Have A Strong Desire To Help Each Other, But Is Spite Also Part Of The Human Condition?

Posted January 17, 2006:

• Nearly Half Of Ashkenazi Jews Descended From Four 'Founding Mothers'

Posted December 22, 2005:

• Scientists Narrow The Time Limits For The Human And Chimpanzee Split

Posted December 1, 2005:

• Alleged 40,000-year-old Human Footprints In Mexico Much, Much Older Than Thought

Posted November 7, 2005:

• Modern Humans Arrival In South Asia May Have Led To Demise Of Indigenous Populations

Posted October 30, 2005:

• Flipped Genetic Sequences Illuminate Human Evolution And Disease

Posted October 23, 2005:

• Natural Selection Has Strongly Influenced Recent Human Evolution, Study Finds

Posted September 27, 2005:

• Transmission Of Tuberculosis Is Linked To Historical Patterns Of Human Migration

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