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Dec 27, 2022 · New fossils shed light on old ancestors: discoveries from our earliest and most recent evolutionary history. A molar found in a cave in Laos may belong to a Denisovan girl.
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- 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 1, 2014 · The latest molecular analyses and fossil finds suggest that the story of human evolution is far more complex—and more interesting—than anyone imagined. By Bernard Wood. September 2014 Issue ...
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 ...
Sep 22, 2022 · Research has uncovered new reasons to feel hopeful about future human societies. Scientists used to believe the violent parts of human nature gave us a leg up the evolution ladder.
Dec 30, 2019 · Many recent discoveries have been made possible by the new science of ancient DNA. Since scientists fully sequenced the first ancient human genome in 2010, data from thousands of individuals have shed new insights on our species’ origins and early history.
