Evolution Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  The size of the human brain has long been of interest to scientists. A new study suggests humans have larger brains due to

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An international team of paleobiologists has compellingly demonstrated that the sinuses of ancient ocean-dwelling relatives of today’s crocodiles played a crucial role

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fossilized Neanderthal discovered in a cave system in the Rhône Valley, France, represents an ancient and previously undescribed lineage. This lineage diverged

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study co-authored by Griffith University reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The question of when and how early hominids first arrived in Europe from Africa has been a significant topic of debate in human evolution.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Our lineage's species formation pattern was unlike anything else. A cast of the skull of Homo Heidelbergensis, one of the hominin species analyzed

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles, and island lizards shrunk over time may have been solved in a new study. Image credit:

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a recent study led by

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New dating analysis of existing human remains found worldwide has raised questions about some of our current histories of human evolution. The existence

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Crocodiles have a deep and varied evolutionary past. Now, researchers are peeling back the layers to find out how the surviving species

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study has cast doubt on claims that Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin dating to between 335,000 and 241,000 years ago, deliberately

AncientPages.com - When we think of Neanderthals, we often imagine these distant ancestors of ours to be rather brutish, dying at a young age and ultimately becoming extinct.

AncientPages.com - Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia,

AncientPages.com - For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. If evolution

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, scientists have traced the history of migrations between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. About 40,000 years

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Some of nature's mysteries have kept scientists busy for decades—for example, the processes that drive evolution. The question of whether certain differences between

AncientPages.com - Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago, as exemplified by human fossils

Jan Bartek -  AncientPages.com - A team of evolutionary scientists has presented evidence the Neanderthals vanishing when Homo sapiens emerged in Europe may have been coincidental. In a