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Copping a Latitude: Genetics Supports Idea Cultural Interaction Was More East to West Than North to South: Scientific American
News | Evolution The finding supports a case made by Jared Diamond and others that migration along the same lines of latitude in Eurasia promoted the sharing of crops, animals and technology, but that wide variations in climate found in the New World's north-to-south orientation hindered cultural exchanges Image: Covens & Mortier/Wikimedia Commons
Stone Tools Shed Light on Early Human Migrations: Scientific American
The discovery of stone axes in the same sediment layer as cruder tools indicates that hominins with differing tool-making technologies may have coexisted.
Image: Photographs by Floto + Warner Distinguishing between male and female human remains can be tricky, especially in cases where only partial skeletons are found. Ann Ross, a forensic anthropologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and her colleagues have developed a new computer program called 3D ID that helps researchers make such distinctions based on skulls.
Cold Cases: Scientists use a variety of tools to help them identify human remains [Video and Slide Show]: Scientific American
One of our newest relatives, a juvenile male Australopithecus sediba (photo by Brett Eloff courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand)
The Newest Member of the Human Family Tree | Surprising Science
Two fossil skeletons of early humans appear to mark a halfway stage between primitive "ape-men" and our direct ancestors.
South African fossils halfway between ape and human - life - 08 September 2011 - New Scientist
Some women offered their 'Neanderthal' husbands to the professor for future studies. Photograph: Jochen Tack/Alamy
Dear Professor, I think my husband may be a Neanderthal | Science | guardian.co.uk
Neanderthals more advanced than thought | Newsroom | University of Colorado Denver
DENVER – For decades scientists believed Neanderthals developed `modern’ tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens , but new research from the University of Colorado Denver now shows these sturdy ancients could adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own.
The Spittoon » Find Your Inner Neanderthal
They had bigger brains and muscles, but for some reason Neanderthals —thick boned humans who thrived for hundreds of thousands of years in Europe and parts of Asia— died out about 30,000 years ago, while we modern humans survived. Why we, Homo sapiens , flourished and our Homo neandertalensis cousins died out is an evolutionary mystery that biologist are trying to unravel. In the last few years, scientists have uncovered clues not just to what the lives of Neanderthals may have been like, but also clues that tell us more about what it means to be a modern human.
(Image: Chris Collins (Natural History Museum, London) and Torquay Museum) It's always worth a second look. Forty-thousand-year-old teeth found in England and Italy have been re-analysed and the findings suggest they may both predate the oldest modern human remains found in Europe .
Short Sharp Science: Modern humans raced across Europe
Our ancestors speak out after 3 million years - life - 23 November 2011 - New Scientist
Listen to simulations of our ancestors' first sounds YOU may think humanity's first words are lost in the noise of ancient history, but an unlikely experiment using plastic tubes and puffs of air is helping to recreate the first sounds uttered by our distant ancestors.Australopithecus sediba had a hand built for making stone tools (picture by Peter Schmid; courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of Witwatersrand)
Fossil Finds Complicate Search for Human Ancestor | Surprising Science
The Taung Child was killed by an eagle about three million years ago. Image courtesy of Wikicommons If you know anything about human evolution, it’s probably that humans arose in Africa.
How Africa Became the Cradle of Humankind | Hominid Hunting
Cro-Magnon was one of the first fossils of an ancient human ever discovered.