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Kabwe 1 | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
Searching for metal ore deposits in the limestone caves of Kabwe, Zambia, Swiss miner Tom Zwiglaar is credited with finding the first early human fossil ever to be discovered in Africa.
Missing DNA helps make us human
ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2011) — A new study demonstrates that specific traits that distinguish humans from their closest living relatives -- chimpanzees, with whom we share 96 percent of our DNA -- can be attributed to the loss of chunks of DNA that control when and where certain genes are turned on.
Hominidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hominidae ( / h ɒ ˈ m ɪ n ɨ d iː / ; anglicized hominids , also known as great apes [ notes 1 ] ), as the term is used here, form a taxonomic family , including four extant genera : chimpanzees ( Pan ), gorillas ( Gorilla ), humans ( Homo ), and orangutans ( Pongo ). [ 1 ] The term "hominid" is also used in the more restricted sense of humans and relatives of humans closer than chimpanzees. [ 2 ] In this usage, all hominid species other than Homo sapiens are extinct .
Homininae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans , gorillas , chimpanzees , and some extinct relatives; it comprises all hominids that arose after the split from orangutans ( Ponginae ).
Scientists discover hominid cranium in Ethiopia: IU News Room: Indiana University
March 27, 2006 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A team of scientists conducting palaeoanthropological field research at Gona, in the Afar Administrative State of Ethiopia, have discovered a significantly complete cranium of a human ancestor estimated to be Middle Pleistocene in age.
Homo rudolfensis is a fossil human species discovered by Bernard Ngeneo, a member of a team led by anthropologist Richard Leakey and zoologist Meave Leakey in 1972, at Koobi Fora on the east side of Lake Rudolf (now Lake Turkana ) in Kenya . The scientific name Pithecanthropus rudolfensis was proposed in 1978 [ 1 ] by V.
Homo rudolfensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homo gautengensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homo gautengensis is a hominin species proposed by biological anthropologist Darren Curnoe in 2010. The species is composed of South African hominin fossils previously attributed to Homo habilis , Homo ergaster or in some cases Australopithecus and is argued by Curnoe to be the earliest species in the genus Homo . [ 1 ]Australian and Indonesian scientists have identified a new and completely unexpected species of human.
One metre-tall human challenges history of evolution | Science | The Guardian
New human species found in Siberia | Science | The Guardian
A new human species was found in Deisova cave in the Atlai mountains of southern Siberia. Photograph: Johannes Krause The remains of a little finger discovered in a cave in the mountains of southern Siberia belong to a previously unknown human ancestor, scientists said today.Humans possess unique physical and cognitive characteristics relative to other primates.
Neanderthal genomics and the evolution of modern humans
We used random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting to generate anonymous DNA markers in the fish Astyanax mexicanus , a species with both surface and cave populations. Surface individuals are eyed and pigmented; troglobitic forms are blind and depigmented.
Mapping a Cave Fish Genome: Polygenic Systems and Regressive Evolution
This clock representation shows some of the major units of geological time and definitive events of Earth history.