Human Beginnings Archive
Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence the first humans to inhabit the Arctic appeared about 40,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic.
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologically excavated stone tools—some as much as 2.6 million years old—have been hailed as evidence for an early cultural heritage in human evolution.
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives and modern humans share 99.7% of their DNA. These intriguing beings were widespread across Europe and Western
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China's most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using the latest scientific methods, researchers want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left? Two
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a
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Human Beginnings
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - With the help of the world's most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of researchers has theorized how
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DNA
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Asia during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. These ancient humans
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have investigated whether Neanderthals were well adapted to life in the cold or preferred more temperate environmental conditions. Based on investigations in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The scientific debate concerning when the first people reached the American continent continues. A new analysis of archaeological sites in the Americas challenges
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Professor of anthropology has put forward an intriguing theory stating ancient hominin species may still be living in the forests of Flores
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has found clear evidence for a link between astronomically-driven climate change and human evolution. According to the new
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - After the Neolithic, European populations showed an increase in height and intelligence, reduced skin pigmentation and increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient human remains unearthed in the Bacho Kiro cave (in present-day Bulgaria) and recently genetically described were surprisingly reported to be more closely related
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Human Beginnings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Many people worldwide question the theory of human evolution, but why? Scientists decide to find out if there are any common factors that
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPahes.com - The never-ending debate about when the first humans reached North America continues. This time an archeologist says there is evidence humans reached the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The study of human evolution plays a vital role for the progress of science and history in society. There are still many riddles
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - How and when did the first people reach the Americas has been debated for decades. Most scientists agree the first humans to inhabit
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study shows preserving the memory of our ancestors has always been important to prehistoric humans. A first-of-its-kind study at Tel Aviv
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