How many early human species existed on Earth?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 1, 2021
It depends on your definition of human.
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Mysterious human ancestor finds its place in our family tree0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 9, 2020
When it comes to deciphering our ancient family tree, DNA from fossils is the new gold standard. But after about half a million years, even the best-preserved DNA degrades into illegibility, leaving the story of our early evolution shrouded in mystery. A new study of proteins taken from the tooth of an enigmatic human ancestor reveals their rough place in the family tree—and shows how ancient proteins can push beyond the limits of DNA.
Oldest ever human genetic evidence clarifies dispute over our ancestors0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 3, 2020
Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in the human family tree, reaching much further back in time than previously possible.
First human ancestors to leave Africa died out in Java, scientists say0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 21, 2019
Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8m years
Scientists now have evidence the evolutionary birthplace of human kind was in northern Botswana0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 1, 2019
Where was the evolutionary birthplace of modern humans? The East African Great Rift Valley has long been the favored contender – until today.
Siberian cave findings shed light on enigmatic extinct human species0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 8, 2019
Scientists using sophisticated techniques to determine the age of bone fragments, teeth and artifacts unearthed in a Siberian cave have provided new insight into a mysterious extinct human species that may have been more advanced than previously known.
AI Has Predicted A New Subspecies Of Archaic Human Ancestors That Have Not Been Discovered Yet0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 22, 2019
AI has predicted a new hybrid species stemming from Denisovans and Neanderthals that has not yet been identified.
Artificial intelligence applied to the genome identifies an unknown human ancestor0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 18, 2019
By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, investigators from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu have identified, in the genome of Asian individuals, the footprint of a new hominid who cross bred with its ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.
Study suggests multiple instances of inter-breeding between Neanderthal and early humans0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 1, 2018
A pair of researchers at Temple University has found evidence that suggests Neanderthals mated and produced offspring with anatomically modern humans multiple times—not just once, as has been suggested by prior research.
Ancient Hominin Skull From China Suggests Humans Didn’t Evolve Just From African Ancestors0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 16, 2017
Most scientists believe all modern humans are descended from African ancestors. But a new analysis of an ancient Chinese skull found too many similarities to the earliest human fossils found in Africa to be a coincidence; maybe we didn’t all originate in Africa.
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