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Prehistoric Archaeology & Human Evolution | Scoop.it
A new discovery in South Africa suggests that prehistoric human painters also planned ahead, using ochre paint kits as early as 100,000 years ago.A close-up of Smilodectes, a lemur-like primate closely related to Notharctus. Photo by the author.
Preening the History of Primates | Wired Science | Wired.com
News | Evolution A new hypothesis holds that the natural selection produced the chimpanzee's nicer cousin in much the same way that humans bred dogs from wolves
Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves?: Scientific American
Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a Role in Human Brain Evolution: Scientific American
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How Humans Became Social - ScienceNOW
Look around and it's impossible to miss the importance of social interactions to human society.Extinct Genome From Fossil Finger Posted Online - ScienceInsider
Researchers in Germany today posted the first high-resolution version of an extinct human's genome on the Web site for the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Courtesy of Steven Churchill, Duke University.
Pieces of the Human Evolutionary Puzzle: Who Was Australopithecus sediba? | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Blog Network
'Junk DNA' Defines Differences Between Humans and Primates
Scientists believed for years that the vast phenotypic differences between humans and chimpanzees would display significantly different genetic makeups.
Humans and Neanderthals had sex, but not very often | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Gains in DNA Are Speeding Research Into Human Origins - NYTimes.com
The new view is fast supplanting the traditional idea that modern humans triumphantly marched out of Africa about 50,000 years ago, replacing all other types that had gone before. Instead, the genetic analysis shows, modern humans encountered and bred with at least two groups of ancient humans in relatively recent times: the Neanderthals, who lived in Europe and Asia, dying out roughly 30,000 years ago, and a mysterious group known as the Denisovans, who lived in Asia and most likely vanished around the same time. Their DNA lives on in us even though they are extinct.Earliest Homo Erectus Tools Found in Kenya - NYTimes.com
A new geological study, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, showed that tools from a site near Lake Turkana in Kenya were made about 1.76 million years ago, the earliest of their ilk found so far.courses
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