Human Evolution News

Posted April 2, 2012:

• Evidence That Human Ancestors Used Fire One Million Years Ago

Posted March 19, 2012:

• The Viking Journey of Mice and Men

Posted March 15, 2012:

• Was Human Evolution Caused by Climate Change?
• Scientists Map Hotspots for Genetic Exchange in Chimpanzees

Posted March 14, 2012:

• Mystery Human Fossils Put Spotlight on China

Posted March 7, 2012:

• What Have We Got in Common With a Gorilla? Insight Into Human Evolution from Gorilla Genome Sequence

Posted March 6, 2012:

• Basque Roots Revealed Through DNA Analysis

Posted March 2, 2012:

• Nearby Chimpanzee Populations Show Much Greater Genetic Diversity Than Distant Human Populations

Posted February 25, 2012:

• European Neanderthals Were on the Verge of Extinction Even Before the Arrival of Modern Humans

Posted February 22, 2012:

• Theory of the 'Rotting' Y Chromosome Dealt a Fatal Blow

Posted February 17, 2012:

• Linking Human Evolution and Climate Change

Posted February 8, 2012:

• Dogs Succeed While Chimps Fail at Following Finger Pointing: Chimpanzees Have Difficulty Identifying Object of Interest Based on Gestures

Posted February 7, 2012:

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

Posted February 3, 2012:

• To Make a Social Robot, Key Is Satisfying the Human Mind

Posted February 1, 2012:

• Extended Synaptic Development May Explain Our Cognitive Edge Over Other Primates

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 January 11, 2012:

• Chemotherapy May Influence Leukemia Relapse

Posted December 27, 2011:

• Understanding Left-Handedness

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 December 8, 2011:

• Helping Your Fellow Rat: Rodents Show Empathy-Driven Behavior, Evidence Suggests

Posted November 16, 2011:

• Chimps Play Like Humans: Playful Behavior of Young Chimps Develops Like That of Children

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 13, 2011:

• Preventing Dangerous Nonsense in Human Gene Expression
• Children, Not Chimps, Prefer Collaboration: Humans Like to Work Together in Solving Tasks -- Chimps Don't

Posted October 12, 2011:

• Researchers Reconstruct Genome of the Black Death; Bacteria Found to Be Ancestor of All Modern Plagues

Posted October 10, 2011:

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

Posted October 6, 2011:

• Length of Flanking Repeat Region and Timing Affect Genetic Material

Posted October 4, 2011:

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

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Structure of a Molecular Copy Machine: How Mitochondrial Genes Are Transcribed

Posted September 22, 2011:

• Evolutionary Tree of Life for Mammals Greatly Improved
• 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 14, 2011:

• Researchers Analyze the Evolving Human Relationship With Fire

Posted September 8, 2011:

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

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