Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt to unravel the truth about the intriguing Denisovans. There are also other ground-breaking discoveries that can shed more light on the evolution of humans. Reconstruction of the […]
AncientPages.com – Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, we have uncovered dozens of distinctive historical
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A trip back through time in Alberta offers evidence to bolster a recent study suggesting non-avian dinosaurs were already waning over the 10 million years before the cataclysmic event. Credit: Public Domain Non-avian dinosaurs were probably in decline long before an asteroid smashing into the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands of years earlier than any other such event previously documented. The science team says there is evidence
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – For more than a century, biologists have wondered what the earliest animals were like when they first arose in the ancient oceans over half a billion years ago. Searching among today’s most primitive-looking animals for the earliest branch of the animal tree of life, scientists gradually narrowed the possibilities
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations. Admixture results in a blending of genetic lineages, leading to increased genetic diversity within populations. In addition to admixture among
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But many uncertainties remain, and competing theories about where, when, and how. An international research team led by McGill University and the University of California-Davis suggest that, based on contemporary genomic evidence from across the continent, there were humans living
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What can human hands possibly have in common with fish fins? Not much, most would say. However, according to scientists, fossil evidence offers remarkable insight into how the human hand evolved from fish fins. The study is based on examining an ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada. Complete
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Half a billion years ago, an unusual-looking animal crawled over the sea floor, using tentacles to pick up food particles along the way. Known as Rotadiscus grandis, this animal lived during the Cambrian period, when a burst of evolutionary activity is thought to have given rise to many of the major
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new study published in the journal Science by an international team finds that early human species adapted to mosaic landscapes and diverse food resources, which would have increased our ancestor’s resilience to past shifts in climate. Artist illustration of hominins arriving in a multi-biome mosaic landscape. Such environments were
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