Human Beginnings Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human

AncientPages.com - Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and provides clues as to how and why

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com - Scientists used a new technique that examines temperature records stored in bacteria to better understand the environmental conditions that may have led

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ - the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa - have African and Asian ancestry according to new

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A scientist has conducted a spatial analysis of the faunal remains and lithic tools for the Neanderthal occupation of level F at the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The paleoneurologist Emiliano Bruner and the archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, both from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have published

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans began to spread across Eurasia about 45,000 years ago. Still, previous research showed that the first modern humans that arrived in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Every biologist knows that small structures can sometimes have a big impact: Millions of signaling molecules, hormones, and other biomolecules are bustling

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a cave just south of Lisbon, archaeological deposits conceal a Paleolithic dinner menu. As well as stone tools and charcoal, the site

AncientPages.com - That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary transitions from

Jan Bartek  - AncientPages.com - A new study led by Western biological anthropology professor Jay Stock, suggests that milk consumption in some regions between 7,000 and 2,000 years