Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An ancestor to modern humans had a stockier body shape and a larger lung volume than today’s humans, according to a team of paleoanthropologists. Reconstructed upper body skeleton of the 1.5 million years old Homo

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neandertals and Denisovans are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. Analyses of their genomes showed that they contributed genetically to present-day people outside sub-Saharan Africa Until now, only the genomes of two Neandertals have

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Five centuries after Charles I of Spain authorized the transport of the first African slaves to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the ancestry of the hundreds of thousands of abducted and enslaved people forms an

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -The ancient cemetery of Mözs-Icsei dűlő in present-day Hungary holds clues to a unique community formation during the beginnings of Europe’s Migration Period, according to a study. Artificially deformed skull of an adult woman. Permanent binding

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The smallest Homo erectus cranium in Africa and diverse stone tools found at Gona, Ethiopia, indicate that human ancestors were more varied, both physically and behaviorally, than previously known. The DAN5 cranium. Image credit: Dr. Michael

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin 700,000 years ago. For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers, professor of anthropology at the University of Utah has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. Ancient Human Populations.

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An analysis of four ancient skulls found between 2008 and 2015 in submerged caves in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, in Mexico suggests that the first humans to settle in North America were more biologically

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers from Russia, Australia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Canada, including the University of Wollongong geochronologist Professor Richard ‘Bert’ Roberts, announced that Siberian Neanderthals were intrepid nomads. Chagyrskaya Cave in southern Siberia’s

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene and successfully adapted to high-altitude low-oxygen environments long before the regional arrival of modern Homo sapiens, a new study shows. So far Denisovans were only known from

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – A Massey scientist is helping unearth new information about the earliest human-like groups, which can be used to improve healthcare for people in the islands of Southeast Asia. New research has uncovered more information about the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com  – The remains of a new species of human have been uncovered by researchers excavating Callao Cave on Luzon Island, Philippines. This region of our planet apparently played a significant role in hominin evolutionary history. No DNA has been produced

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists are using artificial intelligence to unravel the mystery of human evolution. According to the latest report, AI (artificial intelligence) may have found an unknown human ancestor whose existence, if and when confirmed, may shed

AncientPages.com – Florida was something of a horse paradise 5 million years ago, providing everything horses could want in a relatively small area, a new geochemical analysis of fossils suggests. The world’s first horses originated in North America, lived there for 55

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com –  Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with a related archaic population, we known today as Denisovans. Researchers unexpectedly discovered two separate episodes of Denisovan genetic intermixing. They determined that the