Miniature People Add Extra Pieces to Evolutionary Puzzle
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The miniature people found to have lived on an Indonesian island until 13,000 years ago have shaken up views of the human past.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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In the continuing debate over the origin of the extinct âlittle peopleâ of Indonesia, a team of scientists says it has found evidence that these people were members of a distinct species.
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In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists have announced they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different.
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Maybe walking upright on two legs isn't such a defining human feature after all. Scientists who spent a year photographing orangutans in the rain forest say the trait probably evolved in ancient apes navigating the treetops long before ancestors of humans climbed to the ground &#151; a hypothesis that contradicts science museums the world over.
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In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species, a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical
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How interesting it is that scientists have discovered another species of human - an 18,000-year-old skeleton named Homo floresiensis that has been described as &quot;hobbit-sized.
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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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Paris - In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists say they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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Evolution has gotten faster, and scientists think they know why: Microbes are swapping DNA from one species to another, giving the Darwinian process an added boost.
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When it comes to DNA, a human is closer to a chimpanzee than a mouse is to a rat. Yet tiny differences sprinkled throughout the genome have made all the difference, giving humans agriculture, language, art, music, technology and philosophy -- all the achievements that make us profoundly different. Until recently, there was no way to unravel these crucial differences, but that's rapidly changing.
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The fossil called Little Foot, which had tantalized scientists with its human- and apelike features, is a million years younger than had been thought, a new study says.
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A genetic study sheds light on the mystery of how fish made the move from water to land millions of years ago.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.