Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it’s a good thing your nose wasn’t as sensitive to urine and sweat as a modern human’s. And if you lived the hunting and gathering
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Orangutans, mice, and horses are covered with it, but humans aren’t. Why we have significantly less body hair than most other mammals has long remained a mystery. But a first-of-its-kind comparison of genetic codes from
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Everything must have a beginning somewhere at some point in time. It does not matter in which country we live today because, according to scientists, the history of most of our ancestors started in a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – By reconstructing the sea level history of the Bering Strait, scientists found that the strait remained flooded until around 35,700 years ago, not long before humans began migrating into the Americas. Beringia—Bering Land Bridge
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Human bipedalism—walking upright on two legs—may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. In the study, published today in the journal Science Advances, researchers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a University of Otago study has found. Lead author Dr. Ian Towle, of the Sir John Walsh Research Institute in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analog for modern climate change, according to an international
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For over a century, one of the earliest human fossils ever discovered in Spain has been long considered a Neandertal. However, new analysis from an international research team, including scientists at Binghamton University, State University
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This new study demonstrates how the creative use of unconventional research methods turned an unfortunate archaeological sampling event into a scientific success story. However, this scientific adventure was not a straightforward triumph. BLOCK OF SEDIMENT:
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of human evolution. Dr. Yassine Souilmi, Group Leader at the University of Adelaide’s
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals not by violence, but through sex instead. Making love, not war, might have been responsible for putting the Neanderthals
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The changing shape of the frontal sinuses is helping to reveal more about how modern humans, and our ancient relatives, evolved. An international team of researchers led by Antoine Balzeau of the Muséum National d’Histoire
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Cave paintings from the Lascaux complex in France to Ubirr in Australia have one characteristic in common—they depict hunters and their prey. Very few of our Paleolithic ancestors seemed interested in doing still-life paintings of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first genetic data from Paleolithic human individuals in the U.K.—the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far—indicates the presence of two distinct groups that migrated to Britain at the end of
AncientPages.com – Humans are the only species to live in every environmental niche in the world – from the icesheets to the deserts, rainforests to savannahs. As individuals we are rather puny, but when we are socially connected, we are
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The interior of Central Asia has been identified as a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations across Asia, according to a new study led by Dr. Emma Finestone, Assistant Curator of Human
