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 the University of Maine. Credit: Adobe Stock – Zahid Humans have come
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The shift from dense forests to open plains in Africa may have caused our ancient ancestors to change their vocal calls, research involving Durham University anthropologists has found. The researchers studied audible orangutan calls in a South
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 of early Homo sapiens in Europe was over 150,000 years earlier than first
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Evolutionary biologists have solved a major mammal skull shape evolution puzzle. The results of this interesting study shed some light on the evolution of the human face as well. Horses have developed long faces simply
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 of archaic and modern human features. A computer reconstruction of the skull
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, is a breakthrough for human genome biology and has wide-ranging implications for
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 came to be. Some ancient crocodiles, like Simosuchus, were doing things vastly different
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An extensive study sheds new light on the complex evolution of our feet. “The human foot is one of the most complex masterpieces of evolution, a work of art in biomechanics: not only does it allow us
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 buried their dead and produced rock art in Rising Star Cave, South
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Marina Ascunce, currently at the USDA-ARS, and colleagues, report these findings in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Credit: Adobe Stock – Gorodenkoff The human louse is a wingless, blood-sucking parasite that lives its entire life
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. But findings show that at least some of these ancient Neanderthals survived into
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolved in animals – including us. The shoulder girdle – the configuration of bones and muscles that
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, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa. A
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution by Denisovans to date. The study reveals that the genetic variant observed,
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 disappeared around 40,000 years ago. Today, the cause of their extinction remains
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been identified as the oldest-known mega-predatory pliosaur – a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles closely related to the famous long-necked plesiosaurs.
