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Becoming Human: The Origin of Stone Tools
Archaeologists are still debating when hominids started making stone tools and which species was the first toolmaker
October 01, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
How to Retrace Early Human Migrations
Anthropologists rely on a variety of fossil, archaeological, genetic and linguistic clues to reconstruct how people populated the world
September 26, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Do Feathers Reveal Neanderthal Brainpower?
Neanderthals may have used feathers as personal ornaments, which suggests our cousins were capable of symbolic expression
September 24, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
The Rock of Gibraltar: Neanderthals’ Last Refuge
Gibraltar hosted some of the last-surviving Neanderthals and was home to one of the first Neanderthal fossil discoveries
September 19, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Energy Efficiency Doesn’t Explain Human Walking?
A new study of mammal locomotion challenges the claim that hominids evolved two-legged walking because of its energy savings
September 17, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
What Was the Black Skull?
Anthropologists know little about Paranthropus aethiopicus and they don't all agree on the 2.5-million-year-old species' place in the human family tree
September 12, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Indonesia’s Top Five Hominid Fossil Sites
Indonesia is one of the first places where scientists discovered hominid fossils and is home to some of the oldest hominid bones outside of Africa
September 10, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Early Cannibalism Tied to Territorial Defense?
Researchers say chimpanzee behavior may help explain why human ancestors ate each other 800,000 years ago
September 05, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Timing of Childbirth Evolved to Match Women’s Energy Limits
Researchers find no evidence for the long-held view that the length of human gestation is a compromise between hip width and brain size
August 29, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
The Oldest Human Fossils in Southeast Asia?
Researchers claim skull fragments and teeth discovered in a cave in Laos may be the oldest modern human fossils ever found in mainland Southeast Asia
August 27, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Five Accidental Hominid Fossil Discoveries
Sometimes finding Neanderthals, australopithecines and other human ancestors is a complete accident
August 22, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
The Best Places to See Hominid Bones Online, Part II
The Internet is full of great websites where you can play with hominid fossils
August 20, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Neanderthal and Human Matings Get a Date
New research shows modern humans bred with Neanderthals 47,000 to 65,000 years ago as our ancestors left Africa
August 15, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Tooth Chemistry Confirms Early Homo Loved Meat
Two million years ago hominids evolved more specialized diets with early Homo preferring meat and Paranthropus choosing plants
August 13, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Multiple Species of Early Homo Lived in Africa
New fossils unearthed in Kenya confirm that at least two species of Homo co-existed in Africa two million years ago
August 08, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Becoming Human: The Evolution of Walking Upright
Walking on two legs distinguished the first hominids from other apes, but scientists still aren't sure why our ancestors became bipedal
August 06, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
The Origins of Modern Culture
A 44,000-year-old collection of wood and bone tools from South Africa may be the earliest example of modern culture, a new study suggests
August 01, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
The Top Five Human Evolution Discoveries from England
As many as four different species of hominids have lived in England, starting 800,000 years ago
July 25, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Rethinking Modern Human Origins
Did modern humans appear in the world suddenly or was our species' origin a long, drawn out process?
July 23, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
Neanderthals Weren’t Stone Age Rodeo Riders?
Neanderthal injuries are often compared to those of rodeo riders, but these cowboys may not be the best guide to our cousins' trauma
July 18, 2012 |
By Erin Wayman
