Human Evolution News

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

Posted March 16, 2007:

• Tooth Decay Analysis Supports 'Out Of Africa' Theory Of Human Evolution

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 January 4, 2007:

• The Evolution Of Human Diet

Posted December 22, 2006:

• European Neanderthals Showed Significant Physical Differences From North To South

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'

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