It looked like a white splotch on the underside of a Neanderthal stone tool. But a microscope showed it was a bunch of fibers twisted around each other.
Archaeology
Apr 9, 2020
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In recent years, scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals share a tangled past. In the course of human history, these two species of hominins interbred not just once, but at multiple times, the ...
Archaeology
Apr 1, 2020
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A partial skeleton of Homo naledi represents a rare case of an immature individual, shedding light on the evolution of growth and development in human ancestry, according to a study published April 1, 2020 in the open-access ...
Archaeology
Apr 1, 2020
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Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much ...
Archaeology
Apr 1, 2020
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A new study led by the University of Kent has found evidence that human ancestors as recent as two million years ago may have regularly climbed trees.
Archaeology
Mar 30, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of California, has found evidence of "ghost" DNA in some modern West African people. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their study of genetic ...
One of the most controversial hypotheses for the origin of the human language faculty is the evolutionary conjecture that language arose instantaneously in humans through a single gene mutation. `
Evolution
Feb 12, 2020
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A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.K. and one in the U.S. has found that human culture evolves just as slowly as biological evolution. In their paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the ...
Sound doesn't fossilize. Language doesn't either.
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2019
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Small populations, inbreeding, and random demographic fluctuations could have been enough to cause Neanderthal extinction, according to a study published November 27, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Krist Vaesen ...
Archaeology
Nov 27, 2019
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