Posts Tagged ‘early humans’
Did abrupt climate change spark human culture?
CARDIFF U. (UK) — Rapid climate change 80,000 to 40,000 years ago, the Middle Stone Age, may have sparked cultural innovation in early modern humans, according to new research. Continue…
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:35 - 1 Comment
Science & Technology - May 14, 2013 10:00 - 0 Comments
Ape-like ear bones found in hominin skull
TEXAS A&M (US) — Ear bone fossils discovered in the skull of a hominin believed to be about 1.9 million years old have features found in both humans and apes. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 2, 2013 12:22 - 1 Comment
Ape pelvis fills gap in evolution puzzle
U. MISSOURI (US) — Experts say the pelvis from an 11.9 million-year-old ape skeleton suggests the primate probably lived near the beginning of the great ape evolution. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 12, 2013 10:42 - 11 Comments
Ape-like human ancestor stirs debate
BOSTON U. / DUKE (US) — New analysis of a pair of 1.98 million year old fossil proto-humans discovered in a South African cave in 2008 has yielded surprising insights into human evolution. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 26, 2013 8:14 - 0 Comments
Holey skulls hint at early human inbreeding
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS — Skulls with telltale signs of inbreeding raise new questions about early human culture and population stability, researchers say. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 7, 2013 9:30 - 1 Comment
Man’s rare Y chromosome traced back 338,000 years
U. ARIZONA (US) — DNA from an African American in South Carolina pushes back the time of the most recent common ancestor for the Y chromosome lineage tree to 338,000 years ago. (more…)
Science & Technology - Feb 1, 2013 13:00 - 0 Comments
How long have humans walked on grasslands?
USC (US) — An analysis of how vegetation has changed in the cradle of humanity over the past 12 million years is challenging long-held beliefs about human evolution. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 2, 2013 11:36 - 2 Comments
Rock art clarifies demise of pre-Aboriginal culture
U. QUEENSLAND (AUS) — Ancient rock art suggests a 1,500-year-long mega-drought may have been responsible for the disappearance of a pre-historic culture that predates present day Aboriginal people. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 31, 2012 11:26 - 4 Comments
Shifts in food supply sparked our evolution
PENN STATE / RUTGERS (US) — An environment that shifted between open grassland and closed woodland in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 7, 2012 13:53 - 0 Comments
Hybrid monkeys hint at early human history
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Did different species of early humans interbreed and produce offspring of mixed ancestry? New research with howler monkeys suggests it’s possible. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 20, 2012 16:04 - 0 Comments
Spears with stone tips used 500,000 years ago
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago, about 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 20, 2012 6:46 - 0 Comments
Clovis-era impact: Did critics miss evidence?
U. OREGON (US) — A group challenging the theory of a North American meteor-impact event some 12,900 years ago may have missed supporting evidence because they didn’t follow three critical protocols. (more…)
Top Stories - Aug 9, 2012 11:46 - 0 Comments
Fossils confirm early humans with flat faces
NYU (US) — Fossils found in Kenya confirm three different human species living together at the dawn of humanity. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 13, 2012 11:04 - 2 Comments
Darts raise doubts about who was first to America
U. OREGON (US) — Stone darts and DNA from ancient feces found in Oregon’s Paisley Caves suggest the Clovis were not the first people to live in North America. (more…)
Top Stories - May 14, 2012 17:05 - 2 Comments
Erotic wall art dates back 37,000 years
NYU (US) — A 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art, report anthropologists working in southern France. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 3, 2012 10:37 - 2 Comments
Cave yields earliest evidence of fire by humans
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Scientists have uncovered evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago—300,000 years earlier than believed. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 25, 2011 16:58 - 2 Comments
Early hunters: Pre-Clovis weapon found in US
TEXAS A&M (US) — The tip of a bone point fragment found embedded in a mastodon rib from an archaeological site in Washington state shows that hunters were present in North America at least 800 years before Clovis. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 20, 2011 12:50 - 1 Comment
Short legs let Neandertals climb mountains
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Neandertals evolved with such short lower legs so they could move more efficiently over the mountainous terrain where they lived, a new study concludes. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 12, 2011 11:33 - 2 Comments
Virtual skull: 3D peek at hominid brain
EMORY (US) — A virtual endocast of a hominid skull that dates back nearly 2 million years raises questions about the evolution of the human brain. (more…)
