An unusually big spleen is one of the secrets behind the Bajau people’s extraordinary ability to dive deep and for…
Browsing: Human Evolution
The complete genome of a neanderthal has been mapped for a second time. The new findings sheds light on archaic…
Our understanding of our origin is changing, as Homo sapiens appears to be much older than we have previously thought.…
Sleep disorders can sometimes be helpful – at least if you need to be on the lookout for danger to…
Fossil findings in Morocco show that Homo sapiens may have walked the Earth 300,000 years ago already, significantly earlier than…
A mandible jawbone moves the human origin to Europe according to a new controversial theory. The first people came from…
There are now new methods to find traces of ancient DNA, even in the absence of skeletal remains. Researchers at…
Not only has our skin adapted to the climate our ancestors lived in – our noses have been subjected to…
The Inuit’s inhabiting the Arctic regions have a specific gene from the extinct Denisovan hominin – which allows them to…
Our DNA has mutated randomly over the millennia, and those individuals who have been best equipped for the prevailing circumstances…
Was it one, two, or several ‘Out of Africa’ migrations that eventually gave rise to all the different people we…
Homo erectus had a larger brain, a larger body and moved over much larger areas than their predecessors. All of…
A fossil of a small monkey on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain force scientists to re-think about the gibbon primate…
Scientists claim to have discovered several fossils of a previously unknown human species. The species named Homo Naledi was found…