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Jan 3, 2024 · Fossil Evidence. From skeletons to teeth, early human fossils have been found of more than 6,000 individuals. With the rapid pace of new discoveries every year, this impressive sample means that even though some early human species are only represented by one or a few fossils, others are represented by thousands of fossils.
- Genetics
The DNA evidence informs this conclusion, and the fossils...
- Dating
When scientists first discovered the famous Australopithecus...
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When scientists discover a new fossil skull, they compare it...
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When scientists discover a fossil skull, they compare it to...
- Homo Habilis
While scientists used to think that H. habilis was the...
- Homo Erectus
Overview: Early African Homo erectus fossils (sometimes...
- Homo Naledi
Evolutionary Tree Information: The placement of Homo naledi...
- Homo Sapiens
Overview: The species that you and all other living human...
- Homo Neanderthalensis
Several years after Neanderthal 1 was discovered, scientists...
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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...
Sep 19, 2022 · Explore the evidence of early human behavior—from ancient footprints to stone tools and the earliest symbols and art – along with similarities and differences in the behavior of other primate species. From skeletons to teeth, early human fossils have been found of more than 6,000 individuals.
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- 550,000 to 750,000 Years Ago: The Beginning of the Homo sapiens Lineage. Genes, rather than fossils, can help us chart the migrations, movements and evolution of our own species—and those we descended from or interbred with over the ages.
- 300,000 Years Ago: Fossils Found of Oldest Homo sapiens. As the physical remains of actual ancient people, fossils tell us most about what they were like in life.
- 300,000 Years Ago: Artifacts Show a Revolution in Tools. Our ancestors used stone tools as long as 3.3 million years ago and by 1.75 million years ago they’d adopted the Acheulean culture, a suite of chunky handaxes and other cutting implements that remained in vogue for nearly 1.5 million years.
- 100,000 to 210,000 Years Ago: Fossils Show Homo sapiens Lived Outside of Africa. Many genetic analyses tracing our roots back to Africa make it clear that Homo sapiens originated on that continent.
- 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.
Dec 28, 2023 · Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner. The year 2023 proved to be another exciting 12 months for research in human evolution. Many of the top stories tell us more about the diet and tool use of our...
Jan 31, 2024 · Inside a cave beneath a medieval German castle, researchers have discovered a pit of bones that they say unlock secrets of the earliest humans. The remains — buried in layers of soil in the...
