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Apr 28, 2020 · April 28, 2020. Some of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution happened in the last decade. (Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Institution) Human evolution is one of the most...
- 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...
- New Human Relatives. The human family tree expanded significantly in the past decade, with fossils of new hominin species discovered in Africa and the Philippines.
- Taking Measure of the Cosmos. When Albert Einstein first published the general theory of relativity in 1915, he likely couldn’t have imagined that 100 years later, astronomers would test the theory’s predictions with some of the most sophisticated instruments ever built—and the theory would pass each test.
- The Hottest Years on Record. Global temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2018. Watch on. Scientists have been predicating the effects of burning coal and fossil fuels on the temperature of the planet for over 100 years.
- Editing Genes. Ever since the double-helix structure of DNA was revealed in the early 1950s, scientists have hypothesized about the possibility of artificially modifying DNA to change the functions of an organism.
Dec 15, 2022 · Image credit. Left panel: Illustration by Ella Maru. Credit: Tel Aviv University. CC BY License. Center panel: Illustration courtesy of Tom Björklund. Right panel: Illustration courtesy of Jose Garcia and Griffith University. This year—2022—has been another exciting year for research in human evolution.
- Evolution on two scales in Paranthropus robustus fossils from South Africa. 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 tell us about ancient human burial practices in Kenya, France, and South Africa. 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: 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.
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Jan 4, 2022 · In 2021, researchers investigated all kinds of clues, including ancient skulls that shed light on the evolution of Homo brains, bones from previously unknown Homo species and fossilized footprints...
Dec 21, 2022 · December 21, 2022 at 9:00 am. New scientific records are set every year, and 2022 was no exception. A bacterial behemoth, a shockingly speedy supercomputer and a close-by black hole are among the...
