The search for Ancestor X by Colin Barras in New Scientist 3 September 2022
Homo sapiens did not simply spring from a single ancestor. It is beginning to look like H....
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Homo sapiens did not simply spring from a single ancestor. It is beginning to look like H....
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Is the handle better than fire and the wheel? There is always going to be a debate as to which of...
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Our emotions allowed our Homo to outdo every other Homo. 50,000 years ago, Eurasia boasted not...
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Oh, to travel back in time. Researchers have unearthed yet another species of Homo, Nesher Ramla...
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Human beings are a lot more diverse than you first thought. It turns out that some hybrid species...
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We can now manufacture biorobots from scratch. You have heard of genetic engineering as the...
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The difference between frequency and adaptation in evolution. In a neat little series giving...
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Is beautiful Botswana the home of Mitochondrial Eve? A group of researchers have concluded that it...
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The history of human evolution takes another twist. New research suggests that mankind’s hominin...
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Language enabled early man to develop social tolerance. Wrangham has written a summary of the...
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Fascinating research explains why hominin brains grew large. Two research teams, working...
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Yet another datapoint re-writing human history. Researchers have discovered a single finger bone...
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Picture of early Homo sapiens history even more muddled. In 2017, reports emerged of the discovery...
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Everett and Chomsky bracket the debate around the beginnings of language. On the face of it, the...
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Re-thinking mankind’s ancestry over the last few million years. It is increasingly clear...
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Humans and Neanderthals interbred. This article reports on recent findings that there must have...
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Did man’s last common ancestor with apes live in Europe? The article reports on an...
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Holmes’ article reviews some of the research into consciousness that is taking an evolutionary...
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