Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
This fascinating visual presentation from the American Museum of Natural History outlines what we know about human evolution by combining …
Tag Archives: human evolution
The Presence of the Frontal Opercula in Homo naledi
When it comes to the evolution of the human brain, size isn’t everything. In fact, shape is a huge determinant. …
Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA
Svante Pääbo, director of the genetics department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany wants to …
A Modern Human Genetic Adaptation for Diving
The Bajau people of Indonesia are known as “Sea Nomads,” because we’ve known that for thousands of years they live …
Denisovans & Modern Humans Introgressed At Least Twice
Sharon Browning and colleagues published a paper in Cell last week that shows there are uniquely different Denisovan genomes in …
The Role of Climate Change on Early Human Society & Creativity in Kenya’s Olorgesailie Basin
Based on the following three recently published Science studies, in order to survive the climate chances 320,000 ago, early …
Is Mrs Ples A Male Or Female Australopithecus africanus?
New research published in South African Journal of Science offers a continuation of the debate that ‘Mrs Ples,’ the 2.5 …
The Modern Human Cerebellum & Parietal Lobe Evolved Recently
As mentioned yesterday, Jebel Irhoud documents an early African Homo sapiens. The specimen represents mixture of archaic and modern features, …
The Misliya Specimen Pushes Homo sapiens Out of Africa by more than 50,000 Years
A paper published Science reports an interesting date of a human fossil from the Misliya Cave, a cave tucked in …
Homo naledi May Have Made Tools, Buried Dead, Lived Alongside Humans
A couple weeks ago, I introduced that H. naledi may be much younger than we thought it was. Razib’s recent post points out three new …
