Tag: paleoanthropology
Study finds earliest evidence in fossil record for right-handedness
Perhaps the bias against left-handers dates back much further than we thought.
Harmful mutations have accumulated during early human migrations out of Africa
Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are thought to have first emerged in Africa about 150’000 years ago. 100’000 years later, a few of them left their homeland travelling first to Asia and then further east, crossing the Bering Strait, and colonizing the Americas.
The giant ape went extinct 100,000 years ago, due to its inability to adapt
Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Tübingen and from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt examined the demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus.
‘Red Deer Cave people’ bone points to mysterious species of pre-modern human
A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age.
New genome reveals higher Eurasian migration into ancient Africa
Researchers who uncovered a male skeleton in an Ethiopian cave have reported one of the first successful cases of sequencing the full genome of an ancient African, and their results make it clear that current African populations harbor significantly more Eurasian ancestry than previously thought, reshaping the way we interpret human history.
Chimpanzees Shed Light on Origins of Human Walking
A research team led by Stony Brook University investigating human and chimpanzee locomotion have uncovered unexpected similarities in the way the two species use their upper body during two-legged walking.