Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists say they are investigating a 1-million-year-old human skull that gives a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of human evolution. The discovery of the well-preserved fossil, named No 3 skull
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The length of a specific generation can tell us a lot about the biology and social organization of humans. Now, researchers at Indiana University can determine the average age that women and men had children
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The last time comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was spotted was during the Upper Paleolithic period. Our distant relatives, the Neanderthals, watched the comet pass the Earth, but they wouldn’t have known what C/2022
AncientPages.com – Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes of its component parts (lobes) may also be important. Neanderthal vs human
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – If you had the grooming habits of a Neanderthal, perhaps it’s a good thing your nose wasn’t as sensitive to urine and sweat as a modern human’s. And if you lived the hunting and gathering
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Orangutans, mice, and horses are covered with it, but humans aren’t. Why we have significantly less body hair than most other mammals has long remained a mystery. But a first-of-its-kind comparison of genetic codes from
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Everything must have a beginning somewhere at some point in time. It does not matter in which country we live today because, according to scientists, the history of most of our ancestors started in a
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – By reconstructing the sea level history of the Bering Strait, scientists found that the strait remained flooded until around 35,700 years ago, not long before humans began migrating into the Americas. Beringia—Bering Land Bridge
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Human bipedalism—walking upright on two legs—may have evolved in trees, and not on the ground as previously thought, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. In the study, published today in the journal Science Advances, researchers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a University of Otago study has found. Lead author Dr. Ian Towle, of the Sir John Walsh Research Institute in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analog for modern climate change, according to an international
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – For over a century, one of the earliest human fossils ever discovered in Spain has been long considered a Neandertal. However, new analysis from an international research team, including scientists at Binghamton University, State University
