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Genetic Evidence from the South Caucasus Region Shows Surprising Long-Term Stability

June 29, 2017 — The South Caucasus -- home to the countries of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan -- geographically links Europe and the Near East. The area has served for millennia as a major crossroads for human ... read more

Reconstruction of Ancient Chromosomes Offers Insight Into Mammalian Evolution

June 21, 2017 — Researchers have gone back in time, at least virtually, computationally recreating the chromosomes of the first eutherian mammal, the long-extinct, shrewlike ancestor of all placental ... read more

Tiny Fossils Reveal Backstory of the Most Mysterious Amphibian Alive

June 19, 2017 — The fossils of an extinct species from the Triassic Period are the long-missing link that connects Kermit the Frog's amphibian brethren to wormlike creatures with a backbone and two rows of ... read more

Animal Evolution: Hot Start, Followed by Cold Shock

June 15, 2017 — The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession -- prior to the global Ice Age that set in ... read more

Dawn of Humanity: Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Transition

June 14, 2017 — Archaeologists have provided a window into one of the most exciting periods in human history -- the transition between Neanderthals and modern ... read more

Homo Sapiens 100,000 Years Earlier: Ancestors' Diet of Game Revealed

June 7, 2017 — New fossil finds from Morocco do more than push back the origins of our species by 100,000 years. They also reveal what was on the menu for our oldest-known Homo sapiens ancestors 300,000 years ago: ... read more

Genetic Study Shakes Up the Elephant Family Tree

June 6, 2017 — New research reveals that a species of giant elephant that lived 1.5 million to 100,000 years ago -- ranging across Eurasia before it went extinct -- is more closely related to today's African ... read more

The First Genome Data from Ancient Egyptian Mummies

May 30, 2017 — An international team has successfully recovered ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome-wide nuclear data, establishing ancient ... read more

Genomics Tracks Migration from Lost Empires to Modern Cities

May 28, 2017 — New genomic tools are enabling researchers to overturn long-held beliefs about the origins of populations. Until recently, assumptions about origins were based on where people were buried, but this ... read more

Knowledge Gap on the Origin of Sex

May 26, 2017 — There are significant gaps in our knowledge on the evolution of sex, according to a research review on sex chromosomes. Even after more than a century of study, researchers do not know enough about ... read more

7.2-Million-Year-Old Pre-Human Remains Found in the Balkans

May 23, 2017 — Scientists analyzing 7.2 million-year-old fossils uncovered in modern-day Greece and Bulgaria suggest a new hypothesis about the origins of humankind, placing it in the Eastern Mediterranean and not ... read more

3.3-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of the Human Spine

May 23, 2017 — Analysis of a 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton reveals the most complete spinal column of any early human relative, including vertebrae, neck and rib cage. The findings indicate that portions of ... read more

Tooth Truth: Human Teeth Tell the Story of Humanity Through Our Fragile Relationship With the Sun

May 18, 2017 — Researchers have developed a new method to read imperfections in teeth caused by a lack of sunlight, creating a powerful tool to trace events ranging from human evolution and migration out of Africa ... read more

Grassy Beginning for Earliest Homo

May 15, 2017 — Following the discovery of the Ledi-Geraru jaw, an environmental study of the eastern African Plio-Pleistocene was conducted to investigate the long-standing hypotheses that the transition from ... read more

'Fingertip Touch' Clue to Human Ancestors Exploiting Treetop Environments

May 10, 2017 — Research suggests that ancestral humans may have been more adept at negotiating unstable arboreal environment than previously ... read more

South African Cave Yields Yet More Fossils of a Newfound Relative

May 9, 2017 — Probing deeper into the South African cave system known as Rising Star, which last year yielded the largest cache of hominin fossils known to science, an international team of researchers has ... read more

Homo Naledi's Surprisingly Young Age Opens Up More Questions on Where We Come from

May 9, 2017 — Scientists today announced that the Rising Star Cave system has revealed yet more important discoveries, only a year and a half after it was announced that the richest fossil hominin site in Africa ... read more

Primitive Hominid Lived Alongside Modern Humans

May 9, 2017 — Scientists have discovered that primitive hominids lived in Africa at the same time as humans -- the first time this has been ... read more

'Humanlike' Ways of Thinking Evolved 1.8 Million Years Ago

May 8, 2017 — By using highly advanced brain imaging technology to observe modern humans crafting ancient tools, a neuroarchaeologist has found evidence that human-like ways of thinking may have emerged as early ... read more

Bonobos May Be Better Representation of Last Common Ancestor With Humans Than Chimps

Apr. 29, 2017 — A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common ... read more
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