Fossils Found May Change The History Of Human Lineage, Leaves Doubt That Humans Originated In Africa

Medicine & Technology May 23, 2017

New found fossil reveals that the human lineage does not really originate in Africa. The fossils also share similar characteristics with humans.

Study Finds Hominid May Have Lived Alongside Modern Human

May 10, 2017

Recent fossils analysis has found that primitive hominids could have been living with a modern human in Africa.

Ancient Human Species Findings of Homo naledi Bring More Questions of Human Evolution

May 10, 2017

As scientists have announced the finding that hominid, known as Homo Naledi, lived alongside the modern human, questions about human evolution become more complex.

Humans Have Closer Cousin Than Chimpanzee, The Rare Bonobo Ape

May 03, 2017

While it is a common notion that the chimps are the closest human relative, the bonobo challenges this theory. The rare ape species is a perfect fit for human evolution on the anatomical level.

100,000-Year-Old Fossil of Human Skulls From China Reveals Complex Trend in Evolution

Mar 03, 2017

Fossil of two human skulls was discovered from the Lingjing site in Eastern China. Zhan-Yang Li and his team found that those skulls are more than 100,000 years old and they have some similarities with both modern and Extinct human species.

Grandmothers Are The Key To Romantic, Monogamous Relationships -- Study

Sep 13, 2015

The evolution of the human monogamy was apparently causing the existence of our grandmothers.

Study says Carbs Were A Brain Food For Our Ancient Ancestors

Aug 19, 2015

Starchy foods like grasses or root vegetables could have given a calorie boost that lead to the evolution of the human brain.

A New Species is named following the Discovery of a 3-Million-Year-Old Jaw Fragment

May 28, 2015

Most of us are familiar with "Lucy," the famous hominid skeleton discovered by Donald Johanson and colleagues back in 1974 along a dried out gully in Ethiopia. Lucy lived over 3 million years ago and was assigned the name Australopithecus afarensis; a species many believe led to the rise of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery may rewrite our origins, for it seems Lucy was not the only type of Australopithecine roaming the African plains so long ago.

He Said, She Said: Actually, Both Say, When it Comes to Where Hunter-Gatherers Live

May 15, 2015

In an attempt to understand the social dynamics among our hunter-gatherer ancestors, anthropologists sometimes begin in the present and work backwards. And what the researchers at University College London have found adds another dimension to the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer society.

Macaques Prove Quite Handy with a Hammer

May 14, 2015

It was once believed that tool use was one of the signifying traits distinguishing humans from the rest of the animal world, but research has shown that is simply not the case. Chimps crack nuts, gorillas build rudimentary bridges, and dolphins use sponges to stir up the ocean floor, just to name a few. Scientists can now add macaques to the list, for it turns out they are quite handy with a hammer.

From Single Cells to Us—The Tale Of Evolution As It's Told At Deep-Sea Vents

May 07, 2015

In the search for the origins of life, scientists have found a striking new link between lone cells and complex creatures like humans. The connection comes from observing life under the harsh conditions that exist near volcanoes more than a mile below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

How a Beaked Whale Fossil May Reveal Origins of Humanities First Steps

Mar 17, 2015

In a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers with the University of Potsdam in Germany say that they may have found the origin of man’s first steps on land with the rediscovery of a 17 million year old fossil of a beaked whale once native to East Africa. The fossil, which was original unearthed in 1964, but lost for nearly half a century after the skull was misplaced, is the oldest known fossil of a beaked whale and strongly suggests an exact time for when the East African plateau was once turned into a savannah.

Ancient Man May Have Been More Tactile Than We Thought—Stone-Age Brains & Modern-Day Hands

Jan 23, 2015

Anthropologists now believe that some of the earliest human ancestors who lived 3.2 million years ago had hand structures much like our own and were able to grasp and use tools, even if they had not invented them yet.