News tagged with modern human
New ancestor? Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has sequenced ancient mitochondrial DNA from a finger bone found in southern Siberia. ...
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Mar 24, 2010 |
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Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than three million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans were still spending a considerable amount of their lives in trees, but something new was happening.
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Mar 20, 2010 |
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When did the first 'modern' human beings appear in the Iberian Peninsula?
Research carried out by a group of archaeologists from the Centre for Prehistoric Archaeological Heritage Studies of the Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (Spain) has contributed to stirring up scientific debate about ...
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Mar 15, 2010 |
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DNA evidence tells 'global story' of human history
In recent years, DNA evidence has added important new tools for scientists studying the human past. Now, a collection of reviews published by Cell Press in a special issue of Current Biology published online on February 22nd o ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Last Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The last Neanderthals in Europe died out at least 37,000 years ago - and both climate change and interaction with modern humans could be involved in their demise, according to new research ...
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Jan 27, 2010 |
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Humans were once an endangered species
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in the U.S. have calculated that 1.2 million years ago, at a time when our ancestors were spreading through Africa, Europe and Asia, ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Ongoing evolution among modern humans
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been the common perception that once modern humans appeared more than 50,000 years ago, little has changed in human biology.
Jan 05, 2010 |
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The deciding factor: Empathy distinguishes modern humans from their primate ancestors
(PhysOrg.com) -- What, exactly, distinguishes humans from apes? It’s certainly more than just our genes, renowned anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy told a Harvard audience recently (Nov. 18).
Nov 30, 2009 |
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'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils
Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and ...
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either
Spanish researchers say they're a step closer to resolving a "mystery of evolution" -- why some people like Brussels sprouts but others hate them.
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Aug 12, 2009 |
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Diet, population size and the spread of modern humans into Europe
Stable isotope data published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Michael Richards of the University of Bri ...
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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Prehistoric Cold Case Hints of Interspecies Homicide
(PhysOrg.com) -- The wound that ultimately killed a Neandertal man between 50,000 and 75,000 years was most likely caused by a thrown spear, the kind modern humans used but Neandertals did not, according to ...
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known
Excavations in the summer of 2008 at the sites of Hohle Fels and Vogelherd produced new evidence for Paleolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute and isolated small fragments ...
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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High population density triggers cultural explosions
Increasing population density, rather than boosts in human brain power, appears to have catalysed the emergence of modern human behaviour, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) scientists published in ...
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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