Report connects red hair to Neanderthals
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The image of Neanderthals may be in need of a makeover: scientists say at least some of these extinct hominids could have had fair skin and red hair.
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Scientists have found the remains of a creature that may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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Some Neanderthals may have had fair skin and red hair, giving them an appearance resembling modern Europeans, an international team of researchers said on Thursday.
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Scientists find the gene behind a psychiatric disorder that causes compulsive hair pulling.
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Climate change could have been the killer blow that finished off the Neanderthals, according to a study.
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Researchers analyzing variation in the human genome have concluded that human evolution accelerated enormously in the last 40,000 years under the force of natural selection.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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The discovery also sheds light on the ancestry of modern brown bears, which has long puzzled researchers. A genetic analysis of the skull fragment indicates its owner was closely related to the brown bears
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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 believe they may have found the remains of an extinct species of ape that would be the last common ancestor humans shared with chimpanzees, gorillas and other primates during a dig in Spain.
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The earliest-known human ancestors to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
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THE MYSTERY: Since the discovery of the famed "hobbit fossil," researchers have wrangled over whether the find was a human ancestor or a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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Some head lice infesting people today were probably spread to us thousands of years ago by an extinct species of early human, a genetics study reveals.
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Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.