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Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions (February 18, 2007) -- Modern human mothers are probably happy that they typically have one, maybe two babies at a time, but for early hominids, low birth numbers combined with competition often spelled extinction. "The ... > full story

Out Of Africa -- Bacteria, As Well: Homo Sapiens And H. Pylori Jointly Spread Across The Globe (February 16, 2007) -- When man made his way out of Africa some 60,000 years ago to populate the world, he was not alone: He was accompanied by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which causes gastritis in many people ... > full story

Chimp Stone Age: West African Chimpanzees Have Been Cracking Nuts With Stone Tools For Thousands Of Years (February 13, 2007) -- Researchers have found evidence that chimpanzees from West Africa were cracking nuts with stone tools before the advent of agriculture, thousands of years ago. The result suggests chimpanzees ... > full story

Anthropologist Confirms 'Hobbit' Indeed A Separate Species (January 29, 2007) -- After the skeletal remains of an 18,000-year-old, Hobbit-sized human were discovered on island of Flores in 2003, some scientists thought that the specimen must have been a human with an abnormally ... > full story

40,000-year-old Skull Shows Both Modern Human And Neandertal Traits (January 16, 2007) -- Humans continued to evolve significantly long after they were established in Europe, and interbred with Neandertals as they settled across the continent, according to new research published this week ... > full story

Human-chimp Difference May Be Bigger (December 20, 2006) -- Approximately 6 percent of human and chimp genes are unique to those species, report scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other institutions. The new estimate, reported in the ... > full story

Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line (December 8, 2006) -- Ancient remains, once thought to be a key link in the evolution of mankind, have now been shown to be 400,000 years too young to be a part of man's family ... > full story

Gendered Division Of Labor Gave Modern Humans Advantage Over Neanderthals (December 5, 2006) -- Diversified social roles for men, women and children may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over Neanderthals, says a new study in the December 2006 issue of Current Anthropology. The study argues ... > full story

World's Oldest Ritual Discovered -- Worshipped The Python 70,000 Years Ago (November 30, 2006) -- A new archaeological find in Botswana by an archaeologist from the University from Oslo shows that our ancestors in Africa engaged in ritual practice 70,000 years ago -- 30,000 years earlier than ... > full story

Synchrotron Reveals How Neanderthal Teeth Grew (November 27, 2006) -- Scientists from the United Kingdom, France and Italy have studied teeth from Neanderthals with X-rays from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). They found that the dental development ... > full story

Unraveling Where Chimp And Human Brains Diverge (November 17, 2006) -- Six million years ago, chimpanzees and humans diverged from a common ancestor and evolved into unique species. Now UCLA scientists have identified a new way to pinpoint the genes that separate us ... > full story

Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results And Opens A New Door To Future Studies (November 16, 2006) -- The veil of mystery surrounding our extinct hominid cousins, the Neanderthals, has been at least partially lifted to reveal surprising results. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's ... > full story

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