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Geometry has changed our family tree. A new computer analysis published in the journal Nature re-drew evolutionary links between extinct humans, apemen and us. The team led by Dr Rolando González-José of the Centro Nacional Patagónico-CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Argentina employed 4 geometric measurements from human and ape fos... |
15 May 2008
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Millions of years ago, we started our evolution in Africa. Then, at a given moment, we began to colonize the rest of the world. When did humans enter Europe for the first time? In June 2007, archaeologists discovered the oldest European human fossils in the Sima del Elefante Cave, 60-ft (18 m) long, at the Sierra Ata... |
27 March 2008
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Our closest evolutionary relative was the Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis). But when did we share a common ancestor? A new research published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows that gradual changes in human skull size and shape would indicate that, 300,000 to 400,000 years a... |
18 March 2008
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Classical theory says Homo sapiens left Africa 50-60,000 years ago, entering Asia. But a new human skull, dated to be 80,000 to 100,000 years old, found in China, could rewrite the human evolution. The shattered fossil has been found in the Henan province, by a team led by Chinese archaeologist Li Zhanyang. While the... |
21 February 2008
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Annually, HIV and pneumonia kill about 2 million people. Tuberculosis is caused by the Koch bacterium and the oldest TBC was found in mummies coming from ancient Egypt and Peru, being thousands of years old. About 150 million people have died of TBC, since 1914. One third of the people carry the Koch bacterium, whic... |
10 December 2007
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You can imagine the shock of the scientists looking in 2003 for traces of ancient human migration from Asia to Australia to stumble onto a new human species where they least expected: the "hobbit" human species discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores. A vivid debate tried to establish whether the "Flores man" w... |
24 September 2007
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Even if we may have separated totally from chimps 4 million years ago, new findings from Georgia reveal that 1.77-million years ago we were just little more than apes. The fossils of three adults and a teenager were dug near the Dmanisi town (Caucasus area) by a team led by David Lordkipanidze of the Georgian Nationa... |
20 September 2007
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We are more than an odd ape. We are odd as a species due to the fact that we are just one human species. Usually, only living fossils and relicts are represented by just one isolated species. Now, a pair of fossils recently found in Kenya show that once more than just one human species lived side by side. It was beli... |
9 August 2007
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Africa may have been the cradle of the human evolution, but it scarcely shared its human populations with the chilly Europe. The first species of Homo entering Europe appears to have come rather from Asia, than Africa. An international research team has found that Asians played a more important role in the settlement... |
7 August 2007
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No hanky spanky with the Neanderthals, or ape-men (Homo erectus) in our family tree. A new study shows that we are 100 % an African product. This is the result of a comparison of skulls and DNA of human remains found worldwide. It appears that human species living elsewhere in the world did not contribute to our ance... |
19 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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We separated ourselves from chimps 4 million years ago. This took place in Africa. And after that, the rest of the world became a place for African colonists. When did these colonists enter Europe? We do not know for sure, but now Spanish archaelogists have discovered the oldest fossil tooth ever found in Western Eur... |
3 July 2007
04:19 GMT |
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The classical theory says that Homo sapiens emerged about 100,000 years ago in Africa and about 50-60,000 years ago started to spread out of Africa, colonizing the entire planet. Homo sapiens would have wiped out all the pre-existent more archaic Homo species from Eurasia, and this way, our species ensured itself a h... |
3 April 2007
06:43 GMT |
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How did the humans become humans?Were the first humans more ape-like or human-like?Dr. Timothy Bromage, a paleoanthropologist and Adjunct Professor of Biomaterials and of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at New York University College of Dentistry Modern, found that our earliest known close ancestor was much mo... |
26 March 2007
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