Human Evolution News

Posted May 15, 2005:

• Genetic Divergence Of Man From Chimp Has Aided Human Fertility But Could Have Made Us More Prone To Cancer

Posted May 2, 2005:

• Scientists Track 'Stealth' DNA Elements In Primate Evolution

Posted April 5, 2005:

• The Chimp Genome Reveals A Retroviral Invasion In Primate Evolution

Posted March 17, 2005:

• Geography Predicts Human Genetic Diversity

Posted March 9, 2005:

• Retrovirus Struck Ancestors Of Chimps And Gorillas Millions Of Years Ago, But Not Ancestral Humans

Posted March 4, 2005:

• 'Hobbit' Fossil Likely Represents New Branch On Human Family Tree

Posted February 28, 2005:

• The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago

Posted February 26, 2005:

• 'Man The Hunter' Theory Is Debunked In New Book

Posted February 24, 2005:

• New Clues Add 40,000 Years To Age Of Human Species

Posted January 15, 2005:

• University Of Chicago Researchers Discovered That Humans Are A 'Privileged' Evolutionary Lineage

Posted January 12, 2005:

• Evidence That Human Brain Evolution Was A Special Event

Posted December 7, 2004:

• Yerkes Researchers Discover Basis For Determining Handedness In Chimpanzees

Posted November 24, 2004:

• How Running Made Us Human: Endurance Running Let Us Evolve To Look The Way We Do

Posted November 1, 2004:

• Darwin's Greatest Challenge Tackled: The Mystery Of Eye Evolution

Posted October 29, 2004:

• Emory Study Details Dolphin Brain Evolution For The First Time

Posted October 28, 2004:

• Skeleton Reveals Lost World Of 'Little People'

Posted October 5, 2004:

• Of Lice And Men: Parasite Genes Reveal Modern & Archaic Humans Made Contact

Posted October 4, 2004:

• Climate Change Plus Human Pressure Caused Large Mammal Extinctions In Late Pleistocene

Posted September 21, 2004:

• Genes Expose Secrets Of Sex On The Side

Posted September 3, 2004:

• Neanderthal Life No Tougher Than That Of 'Modern' Inuits

Posted July 14, 2004:

• Growth Study Of Wild Chimpanzees Challenges Assumptions About Early Humans

Posted July 6, 2004:

• Old Is Young, Study Finds: Longevity Evolved Late For Humans

Posted June 29, 2004:

• Earliest Evidence Of Hereditary Genetic Disorder Discovered

Posted April 2, 2004:

• UC San Diego Bioinformatics Experts Help Reconstruct The Genomic Makeup Of Our Ancestors

Posted March 25, 2004:

• First Protein Difference Between Humans And Primates That Correlates To Anatomical Changes In Early Hominid Fossil Record

Posted February 17, 2004:

• Human Evolution At The Crossroads: Integrating Genetics And Paleontology

Posted January 27, 2004:

• New Study Shows Neanderthals Were Not Our Ancestors

Posted November 3, 2003:

• Debate Heats Up On Role Of Climate In Human Evolution

Posted August 7, 2003:

• Early Hominids May Have Behaved More 'Human' Than We Had Thought

Posted June 17, 2003:

• About Face: Washington University Anthropologist Sets The Record Straight Regarding Neandertal Facial Length

Posted June 12, 2003:

• 160,000-year-old Fossilized Skulls From Ethiopia Are Oldest Modern Humans

Posted May 28, 2003:

• Scientists Use DNA Fragments To Trace The Migration Of Modern Humans

Posted May 21, 2003:

• DNA Demands Chimps Be Grouped In The Human Genus, Say Wayne State Researchers

Posted February 24, 2003:

• Rutgers' Tanzanian Fossil Reshuffles The Deck On Early Human Ancestry

Posted February 20, 2003:

• New Age For Mungo Man, New Human History

Posted December 26, 2002:

• Did Early Humans Mate With The Locals? Human Genome Data Cast Doubt On "Replacement Theory" Of Human Evolution

Posted December 6, 2002:

• New Theory Explains Economic Growth In Terms Of Evolutionary Biology

Posted August 2, 2002:

• Retroviruses Shows That Human-Specific Variety Developed When Humans, Chimps Diverged

Posted July 5, 2002:

• Large Brains Not Required? Third And Smallest Skull Of "First Eurasians" Reported In Science

Posted May 24, 2002:

• Nut-Cracking Chimps: First Primate Archaeological Dig Uncovers New Tool Development Links

Posted March 26, 2002:

• Ethiopian Fossil Skull Indicates Homo Erectus Was Single, Widespread Species 1 Million Years Ago

Posted March 21, 2002:

• Discovery Supports Theory Of A Single Species Of Human Ancestor

Posted March 8, 2002:

• Humans Emerged "Out Of Africa" Again And Again

Posted February 19, 2002:

• Scientists Look To Europe As Evolutionary Seat

Posted December 7, 2001:

• Fossil Teeth Reveal Recent Origin Of Human Growth Pattern

Posted May 14, 2001:

• Study Supports Out-Of-Africa Origin For East Asians

Posted March 23, 2001:

• Skull Of New Early Human Relative Found In Kenya -- Did Humans Descend From Lucy Or From Newly Discovered Creature?

Posted February 12, 2001:

• Genome Project Opens The Book On Human Evolution

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