The Oldest Humans, Aboriginal Australians
A genetic and cultural analysis, published in Nature, of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans from New Guinea suggests there was …
Tag Archives: human evolution
What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
Did Lucy Fall From A Tree And Die?
Four decades after the discovery of Lucy, her remains are quite possibly the most famous discovery in paleoanthropology and one …
No, Neanderthals Didn’t Give Us Schizophrenia
Thanks to twin studies, schizophrenia is one of the few mental illnesses that we know have a genetic inheritance pattern. …
The Oldest Evidence of Cancer
In two papers published in the South African Journal of Science, researchers say they’ve found the oldest definitive evidence of malignancy in a hominid. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known hominin tumor was found in the rib of a Neanderthal dating back to around 120,000 years ago.
Modern Males Lack Neanderthal Y Chromosome Genes
Modern humans carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA but a new paper reveals that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is distinct …
A Revision On The Age Of The Hobbit
Discovered in 2003 in Liang Bua cave, Homo floresiensis stood about three and a half feet tall and weighed around …
Sima de los Huesos Neanderthals Diverged 430,000 Years Ago
Published in Nature, last week, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology carried out extremely …
Australopithecus East of the Great Rift Valley
Late last month, an international team of paleontologists led by Emma Mbua of Mount Kenya University and Masato Nakatsukasa of …
Neanderthal-Human Sex Happened 100,000 Years Earlier
Previously it had been thought that the modern humans and Neanderthals first admixed about 60,000 years ago, but traces of …
