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Location of the Kanjera South site along the modern shoreline of Lake Victoria, Kenya (Ferraro JV et al)

Earliest Evidence of Hunting by Human Ancestors Found in Kenya

May 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research led by Prof Joseph Ferraro from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has provided the oldest known evidence of hunting, scavenging and meat eating...

Researchers Try to Explain How Brain Works

May 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In two studies published in Physical Review Letters and PNAS, British mathematicians have attempted to explain how the structure of the brain relates to...

Facial approximation of the female Homo floresiensis (Susan Hayes / Australian Archaeological Association)

Homo floresiensis Shared Common Ancestor with Humans, Brain Study Shows

Apr 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo and the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ibaraki have precisely measured the brain size of Homo...

This image shows phylogenetic network of 39 prehistoric mitochondrial genomes sorted into two groupings - Early Neolithic, left, and Mid-to-Late Neolithic, right. Node colors represent archaeological cultures. LBK - Linear Pottery Culture (Paul Brotherton et al)

DNA Study Reveals Genetic History of Europe

Apr 24, 2013 by Sci-News.com

An international team of scientists has used ancient DNA recovered from human remains dating from up to 5,500 BC to reconstruct the first detailed genetic...

This image shows Australopithecus sediba, center, compared to the skeleton of a modern human, left, and a chimpanzee, right (Lee Berger / University of the Witwatersrand)

Research Reveals How Australopithecus sediba Walked, Chewed, Moved

Apr 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...

100,000 year old human skull fossil, known as Xujiayao 11 (Wu X-J et al)

100K Year Old Human Skull Fossil Reveals Signs of Inbreeding

Mar 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Fragments of an early human skull dating back 100,000 years exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common...

Top: artist’s reconstruction of human ancestors (Mirjana Roksandic). Bottom: a human lower jaw found in a cave near Balanica, Serbia (SINC / José Antonio Peñas)

Southeastern Europe’s Oldest-Known Human Ancestor Fossil Found in Serbia

Feb 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a research published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, a 400k year old fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the...

Tree of the Tianyuan and 36 present-day mtDNAs, numbers indicate individuals in the tree and the map (Qiaomei Fu et al)

DNA Analysis Reveals Common Origin of Tianyuan Humans and Native Americans, Asians

Jan 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from remains of a 40,000-year-old human found at the Tianyuan...