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Dec 13, 2023 · Humans. The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution. In 2023, archaeologists found evidence of architecture and art beginning earlier than we thought, and uncovered...
- Animal Friends and Animal Food: Origins of Domestication and Cooperation
- Friends and Family Ties in Modern Apes and Neanderthals
- How Disease Shapes Us, and How We Evolved to Treat It
- Most Notable: A New 2022 Nobel Laureate
Whether for work, companionship or food, domesticated animals make modern human existence possible. But do human impacts on animal communities in a broader sense date back far earlier than evidence for domestication?
While most studies of apes focus on groups of only one species at a time, some apes, like chimpanzees and gorillas, do overlap in multiple locations—providing an opportunity to observe the interactions between them. Often when two closely related species overlap in range, their actions are predominantly antagonistic or aggressive toward the other g...
Modern medicine is thought to have arisen at least by the time of agriculture and large-scale population centers, possibly as a result of their development. More people means more disease, and humans would have looked for new ways to treat diseases. But something as medically complex as limb amputations were only known to occur as far back as 7,000...
While important strides have been made in genetics and human evolution in the past year, the most notable achievement must go to a new Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo. Born in Sweden in 1955, Pääbo has long been a leader in the field of ancient DNA, especially when it comes to humans and our closest relatives. In 2010, Pääbo’s team deciphered the Neand...
Dec 28, 2023 · Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal some of the year’s most fascinating findings about human origins
- New Paranthropus robustus fossils from South Africa show microevolution within a single species. The human fossil record, like any fossil record, is full of gaps and incomplete specimens that make our understanding of complex evolutionary trends difficult.
- Fossil children from Kenya, France, and South Africa tell us how ancient and modern human burial practices changed over time. Most of the human fossil record includes the remains of adult individuals; that’s likely because larger and thicker adult bones, and bones of larger individuals, are more likely to survive the burial, fossilization, and discovery processes.
- The first Europeans had recent Neanderthal relatives, according to genetic evidence from Czechia and Bulgaria. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa and eventually made it to every corner of the world.
- A warty pig from Indonesia, a kangaroo from Australia, and a conch shell instrument from France all represent different forms of ancient art. Currently, the world’s oldest representational or figurative art is a cave painting of a Sulawesi warty pig found in Leang Tedongnge, Indonesia, that was dated to at least 45,500 years ago using Uranium series dating—and reported in January by a team led by Adam Brumm and Maxime Aubert from Griffith University.
- Early humans had ape-like brains. Humans are pretty smart today, but that wasn't always the case. Early members of the genus Homo had ape-like brains; it wasn't until 1.7 million to 1.5 million years ago that we developed "advanced" brains, an April study in the journal Science found.
- 'Dragon man' might be closer to us than Neanderthals. An ancient human skull found in China has led to the naming of a new species: Homo longi, or "Dragon man," according to three studies published in June in the journal The Innovation.
- Ancient 'Child of Darkness' skull discovered in cave. How did the remains of a young Homo naledi child end up in a deep, narrow passageway in South Africa?
- Meet a direct human ancestor: Homo bodoensis. A new analysis of a 600,000-year-old skull originally found in 1976 has revealed a new human species: Homo bodoensis, a possible direct ancestor of Homo sapiens.
Sep 22, 2022 · Six revelations stand out. 1. There are more human species than we ever imagined. Species such as Homo Longi have only been identified as recently as 2018. There are now 21 known species of...
Dec 22, 2021 · The human story – where we come from and how we evolved – got a new chapter in 2021. Thanks to new fossil finds and analysis of ancient DNA preserved in teeth, bones and cave dirt, scientists ...
