evolution Archive
Human Beginnings
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
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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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists say they are investigating a 1-million-year-old human skull that gives a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time—opening a 'game-changing' new chapter in the history of evolution. Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during the Devonian Period over
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional environmental context of the evolution and dispersal of
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - "If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new
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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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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
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient history of human evolution just got a bit more complicated, or perhaps the answers are there but scientists must still put
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus nearly 2 million years ago. This evolutionary transition towards human-like traits is often
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Now, a new study has brought us closer to understanding some of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified remains of a new, previously unknown type of 'Homo' who lived in the region at the Nesher Ramla site side
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Very few complete genomes older than 30,000 years have been sequenced which is why this particular study sheds new light on the theory
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Fossils
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers led by the University of Adelaide have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis and found no evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have presented a controversial idea suggesting humans evolved in Europe instead of Africa. They base their theory on an 8-million-year-old skull that could
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The oldest known human-like footprints recently preserved in Trachilos, Crete are nearly 6 million years old and represent one of the recent and most fascinating discoveries in paleontology. Fossil footprints
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