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March 20, 2020
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Mystery Surrounding Dinosaur Footprints on a Cave Ceiling in Central Queensland Solved

Feb. 26, 2020 — The mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on a cave ceiling in Central Queensland has been solved after more than a half a ... read more
Neanderthal and modern human skulls (stock image). | Credit: (c) Bruder / stock.adobe.com

Earliest Interbreeding Event Between Ancient Human Populations Discovered

Feb. 20, 2020 — A new study documented the earliest known interbreeding event between ancient human populations -- a group known as the 'super-archaics' in Eurasia interbred with a ... read more
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Researchers Were Not Right About Left Brains, Study Suggests

Feb. 14, 2020 — Brain imprints on cranial bones from great apes and humans refute the long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique, according to ... read more

'Living Fossil' May Upend Basic Tenet of Evolutionary Theory

Jan. 16, 2020 — A research team has discovered the first conclusive evidence that selection may also occur at the level of the epigenome -- a term that refers to an assortment of chemical 'annotations' to the genome ... read more
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Ancient DNA from Sardinia Reveals 6,000 Years of Genetic History

Feb. 24, 2020 — A new study of the genetic history of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island off the western coast of Italy, analyzed genome-wide DNA data for 70 individuals from more than 20 Sardinian archaeological ... read more

Oldest Reconstructed Bacterial Genomes Link Farming, Herding With Emergence of New Disease

Feb. 24, 2020 — Using Salmonella enterica genomes recovered from human skeletons as old as 6,500 years, an international team of researchers illustrates the evolution of a human pathogen and provides the first ... read more

Dog Domestication During Ice Age

Feb. 19, 2020 — Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from a 28,500-year-old fossil site in the Czech Republic provides supporting evidence for two groups of canids -- one dog-like and the other wolf-like - with ... read more

Neanderthal Ancestry Also in African Populations

Jan. 30, 2020 — After sequencing the Neanderthal genome, scientists discovered all present day non-African individuals carry some Neanderthal ancestry in their DNA. Now, researchers present evidence of Neanderthal ... read more

Early North Americans May Have Been More Diverse Than Previously Suspected

Jan. 29, 2020 — Ancient skulls from the cave systems at Tulum, Mexico, suggest that the earliest populations of North America may have already had a high level of morphological diversity, according to a new ... read more

The 'Firewalkers' of Karoo: Dinosaurs and Other Animals Left Tracks in a 'Land of Fire'

Jan. 29, 2020 — In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest fossil relatives, survived in a 'land of fire' at the start of an Early Jurassic mass ... read more

First Ancient DNA from West/Central Africa Illuminates Deep Human Past

Jan. 22, 2020 — Scientists have produced the first genome-wide ancient human DNA sequences from west and central ... read more

The Mysterious, Legendary Giant Squid's Genome Is Revealed

Jan. 16, 2020 — Important clues about the anatomy and evolution of the mysterious giant squid (Architeuthis dux) are revealed through publication of its full genome ... read more

Neanderthals Went Underwater for Their Tools

Jan. 15, 2020 — Neanderthals collected clam shells and volcanic rock from the beach and coastal waters of Italy during the Middle Paleolithic, according to a new ... read more

Researchers Determine Age for Last Known Settlement by a Direct Ancestor to Modern Humans

Dec. 18, 2019 — An international team of researchers has determined the age of the last known settlement of the species Homo erectus, one of modern humans' direct ancestors. The site is called Ngandong, on the ... read more

Ancient 'Chewing Gum' Yields Insights Into People and Bacteria of the Past

Dec. 17, 2019 — Researchers have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old 'chewing gum.' According to the researchers, it is a new untapped source of ancient ... read more

How Humans Learned to Dance: From the Chimpanzee Conga Line

Dec. 12, 2019 — Two chimpanzees housed in a zoo in the US have sparked the question about how human dance evolved after being observed performing a duo dance-like behavior, similar to a human conga ... read more

A New Early Whale, Aegicetus Gehennae, and the Evolution of Modern Whale Locomotion

Dec. 11, 2019 — A newly discovered fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale ... read more

Humans Co-Evolved With Immune-Related Diseases -- And It's Still Happening

Nov. 27, 2019 — Some of the same mutations allowing humans to fend off deadly infections also make us more prone to certain inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, such as Crohn's disease. Researchers describe ... read more

Inbreeding and Population/demographic Shifts Could Have Led to Neanderthal Extinction

Nov. 27, 2019 — Small populations, inbreeding, and random demographic fluctuations could have been enough to cause Neanderthal extinction, according to a new ... read more

Smoker-Survivor Genes May Have Long Ancestral History of Fighting Toxins

Nov. 25, 2019 — Longevity genes that helped humans survive ancient airborne toxins may be the same genes that make humans resilient to pollution from fossil fuels and cigarette smoke today, according to a new ... read more

Not So Selfish After All -- Key Role of Transposable Elements in Mammalian Evolution

Nov. 20, 2019 — A scientist has revealed a key role for 'selfish' transposable elements in the evolution of the mammary gland, a defining feature of all ... read more

Early DNA Lineages Shed Light on the Diverse Origins of the Contemporary Population

Nov. 15, 2019 — A new genetic study demonstrates that, at the end of the Iron Age, Finland was inhabited by separate and differing populations, all of them influencing the gene pool of modern Finns. The study is so ... read more

Extinct Giant Ape Directly Linked to the Living Orangutan

Nov. 13, 2019 — Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the evolutionary relationship between a two million year old giant primate and the living orangutan. It is the first time genetic material this old has ... read more

'Ghost' Footprints from Pleistocene Era Revealed by Radar Tech

Nov. 11, 2019 — Invisible footprints hiding since the end of the last ice age -- and what lies beneath them -- have been discovered by researchers using a special type of radar in a novel ... read more
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