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New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.
Modern men are wimps, according to new book
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book claims even modern athletes could not run as fast, jump as high, or have been nearly as strong as our predecessors.
Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals
Sep 19, 2009 |
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Which genes make us uniquely human? Scientists are looking at DNA in old bones to find out. The focus now is not so much on our own species, Homo sapiens. Instead, scientists are probing DNA in well-preserved pieces ...
Humans spread out of Africa later
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Sep 04, 2009 |
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Modern humans spread out of Africa 20,000 years later than previously thought, according to new genetic research just published.
Europe's first farmers replaced their Stone Age hunter-gatherer forerunners
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA study suggests that further waves of prehistoric immigration are waiting to be discovered. Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, ...
Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and ...
Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either
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Aug 12, 2009 |
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Spanish researchers say they're a step closer to resolving a "mystery of evolution" -- why some people like Brussels sprouts but others hate them.
Prehistoric flute in Germany is oldest known
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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Excavations in the summer of 2008 at the sites of Hohle Fels and Vogelherd produced new evidence for Paleolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute and isolated small fragments ...
Did modern humans eat Neanderthals?
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May 18, 2009 |
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Modern humans may have eaten Neanderthals, scientists report in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences this month.
'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...
Study confirms 3 Neanderthal sub-groups
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Now, a group of researchers are questioning whether or not the Neanderthals ...
Draft version of the Neanderthal genome completed
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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In a development which could reveal the links between modern humans and their prehistoric cousins, scientists said Thursday they have mapped a first draft of the Neanderthal genome. Researchers used DNA fragments ...
Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and ...
Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction
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Dec 29, 2008 |
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In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with ...
Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in southeastern Iberia
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely accepted that Upper Paleolithic early modern humans spread westward across Europe about 42,000 years ago, displacing and absorbing Neanderthal populations in the process. However, ...
