Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Most people around the world agree that the made-up word ‘bouba’ sounds round in shape, and the made-up word ‘kiki’ sounds pointy — a discovery that may help to explain how spoken languages develop, according
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team, led by researchers from the Universities of Vienna and Tübingen, and the Max Planck Society, has identified five new human fossils from the key site of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers, led by Professor Lee Berger from Wits University, has revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi child that was found in the remote depths of the Rising Star
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in Japan to represent the evolution of chemistry into biology. “Chemical evolution was
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team under UZH’s lead has now traced families of related languages over more
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Learning more about the Neanderthals and Denisovans is significant if we want to understand how these extinct species are related to modern humans. Scientists have now deciphered the blood groups of the Neanderthals and Denisovans
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found evidence a comet strike 13,000 years ago may have changed human civilization. A cluster of comet fragments believed to have hit Earth nearly 13,000 years ago may have shaped the origins of
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Fear, frustration, anger, and sadness are just some of the many emotions we can experience during a pandemic outbreak. How a person handles a pandemic is a psychological question but many of us feel helpless
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An interesting piece of fossil of extinct human species suggests climate change contributed to the evolution and unexpected anatomical changes that previously were attributed to sex. The skull of Paranthropus robustus who walked the earth
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A remarkable skull found in South Africa challenges the theory of evolution. This 260,000-year-old skull is extraordinary because the frontal bone of this individual, dated to around 260,000 years ago, has a completely modern shape.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For the first time, researchers have retrieved genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human tooth, and data sheds light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further back in time
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Little Foot is the nickname our ancestor, who lived more than 3 million years ago. Some years ago scientists said Little Foot is an entirely new species of humans and now researchers present more information
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have discovered genetic fingerprints of unknown species in human DNA. Lurking within our genome are traces of genetic material from various ancient humans that no longer exist. These traces reveal a long intermingling history,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – About 400,000 years ago, Homo erectus essentially vanished and researchers have tried to determine when and where one of modern humans’ direct ancestors was last present. A recent study reveals the last Homo erectus lived
