Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have tried to solve the enduring mystery of language evolution, and it seems something that happened 70,000 years ago may shed light on this ancient enigma. According to the hypothesis called Romulus and Remus and coined by Dr. Vyshedskiy, a neuroscientist from Boston University, A genetic mutation that slowed […]
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth’s earliest animals managed to be picky about where they lived. Life restoration of Obamus coronatus, a tiny, toroidally shaped, soft-bodied animal from the Ediacaran biota of South Australia. Credit: Nobu Tamura These creatures
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in Western Europe. An international team of researchers led by the University of Southampton, examined chemical properties locked inside tooth enamel to piece together how pre-historic people lived off the land around
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal even comes close. Now, a new Adelphi University study provides insights into how these super giants achieved their record-breaking sizes over time. Credit: Adobe Stock – Orlando
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height. Credit: Dr Kaustubh Adhikari, UCL The new Communications Biology study finds that a particular gene,
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Charles Darwin’s landmark opus “On the Origin of the Species” ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution: “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has
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AncientPages.com – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans spread throughout the rest of the world is one of the most active areas of research in human evolutionary studies. The earliest fossil evidence of our species outside of Africa
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, according to a new study led by researchers at Yale and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline of the tomato plant family. The team’s findings, published in the journal New Phytologist, show that the chili pepper tribe (Capsiceae) within the tomato—nightshade (Solanaceae)—family is much
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Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and provides clues as to how and why blinking might have evolved during the transition to life on land in our own ancestors. New research shows that these amphibious fish have evolved a blinking behavior
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