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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...

Emotion helps us recognize words more accurately and quicker, however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech (© Fuller Theological Seminary)

Study Shows How Vocal Emotions Influence Word Recognition Memory

Dec 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Emotion helps us recognize words more accurately and quicker, however, we do not remember emotionally intoned speech as accurately as neutral speech, according...

Dr Susan Hayes’ facial approximation of the female Homo floresiensis (Susan Hayes / Australian Archaeological Association)

Face-to-Face with Homo Floresiensis

Dec 13, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Dr Susan Hayes, a facial anthropologist and an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Wollongong in Australia, has reported results of the...

Bone tools from the Howiesons Poort levels of the Sibudu Cave, northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Left: bone points. Right: bones with parallel cut marks - these lines are deliberately engraved and may have been symbolic markings (Christopher S. Henshilwood)

Research Hints at South African Origin of Modern Mind 75,000 Years Ago

Dec 6, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new study by renowned Wits University archaeologist Prof Christopher Henshilwood provides first detailed summary of South African Middle Stone Age cultural...