Early Neanderthal DNA suggests a modern human-related dispersal from Africa as early as 220,000 years ago
New insight into the evolution of Neanderthals but also into a common ancestral lineage.
Tag: humans
Scientists report new trove of information on Homo naledi, the newly discovered humanoid species
A primitive Homo species with some surprising skills.
We pick our mates by their genome — even if we aren’t aware of it
Humans too engage in assortative mating, scientists find.
Modern humans lost some of their smoke-resistance genes and we don’t know why
So remember, don't smoke kids.
Did Neanderthals and humans share the same hearing?
The study might help answer whether neanderthals were capable of the same communication abilities as humans.
No matter what your native language is – we all speak the same, study finds
Humans have a surprising tendency to use the same sounds for the same objects -- across language barriers.
Hands and digits evolved from fish fins, groundbreaking study proves
Our beloved hands are coded by the same genes that make fish fins.
Gene mutation helped early humans cope with smoke infested caves, but not Neanderthals
Early humans were far better smokers than Neanderthals, and this might have mattered a lot in the end.
Grumpy old monkeys are more picky with who they call friends, just like humans
Though they're separated by 25 million years of evolution, monkeys and humans share at least one common fact of life: ...
Gyroscopic wired animals
Chickens, Cats, Owls and some more animals have this ability to keep their heads fixed on a spot, regardless of ...
Human brain plasticity doesn’t seem to be shared by chimps – is this a unique gift?
It seems like evolution has fostered us humans all along for us to become the dominant species on planet Earth. ...
There’s a fourth tribe of founding European forefathers
It's widely agreed that modern Europeans trace their roots from three ancient tribes, or three important migration events, if you ...
Challenging the “Out of Africa” theory, one tooth at a time
Recent fossils unearthed in the Chinese province of Daoxian come to unravel the story of humanity’s spread as we know ...
Oldest footprints discovered in Europe are 800,000 years old
Area A at Happisburgh: View of footprint surface looking south, also showing underlying horizontally bedded laminated ...
An interesting fact: Male fertility is in the bones
The researchers of the Columbia University Medical Center discovered a nice revealed a nice little nugget of information that will ...
Chimps can work together similarily to humans, study shows
In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have shown that our closest ...
Are humans still evolving ?
A great Fora TV discussion about the continued evolution of our species.
James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change
James Lovelock is one of the world's most brilliant minds alive at the moment; he developed numerous technologies for NASA, ...
Ants – more rational than humans
Researchers from Arizona State University and Princeton University conducted a study that goes to show that our 'multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, ...