Evolution Archive

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

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