Human Beginnings Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  The quest to identify humans' oldest continues. As scientists explore the realm of animals that lived on this planet millions of years ago,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Georgia have found a 1.8-million-year-old tooth belonging to an early species of human. "The tooth was discovered near the village of

Jan Bartek  - AncientPages.com - Many people living today have a small component of Neanderthal DNA in their genes, suggesting an important role for admixture with archaic human

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals are the closest relatives to modern humans. Comparisons with them can therefore provide fascinating insights into what makes present-day humans unique, for

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers has discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A long-standing Canadian mystery may have finally been solved. A combination of archaeological and geological studies shed new light on when the first

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPage.com - Four billion years ago, the Earth looked very different than it does today, devoid of life and covered by a vast ocean.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Scientists have previously confirmed modern humans and Neanderthals are closely related. In a past study, researchers discovered just 7% of our DNA is

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Paleontologists may have unearthed the oldest European human fossil to date. Found at the world-famous Atapuerca prehistoric archaeological site in northern Spain, scientists have

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The earth doesn't give up its secrets easily - not even in the "Cradle of Humankind" in South Africa, where a wealth of