News tagged with genus homo
'Game-changer' in evolution from S. African bones
An analysis of 2 million-year-old bones found in South Africa offers the most powerful case so far in identifying the transitional figure that came before modern humans - findings some are calling a potential ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Modern humans interbred with more archaic hominin forms even before they migrated out of Africa: study
It is now widely accepted that the species Homo sapiens originated in Africa and eventually spread throughout the world. But did those early humans interbreed with more ancestral forms of the genus Homo, for ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 05, 2011 |
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New hominid shares traits with Homo species
Two partial skeletons unearthed from a cave in South Africa belong to a previously unclassified species of hominid that is now shedding new light on the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens, researchers say. T ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Primate archaeology sheds light on human origins
A University of Calgary archaeologist who is one of the few researchers in the world studying the material culture of human beings' closest living relatives - the great apes - is joining his colleagues in ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Australopithecus Sediba could be direct ancestor of Homo
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last year Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand and his team discovered the skeletal remains of two specimens they determined to be a new species of human called Australopithecus se ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Culture skews human evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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