Evolution Archive

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

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many years ago, in 1986, the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia in Spain received a box. The gift was a donation from amateur paleontologist

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new analysis of mass extinction at the genus level, from researchers at Stanford and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, finds a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new study published in Biology Letters by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the clade comprising all

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Natural selection is usually understood in the context of change. When organisms deviate from the norm, they may gain advantages that let their

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team used advanced sequencing technology to analyze Ötzi’s genome to obtain a more accurate picture of the Iceman’s appearance and genetic

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Genetic kinship analyses of human bones reach their limits if the DNA is poorly preserved or if destructive sampling is not possible. New

AncientPages.com - Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to