Neanderthals May Have Had Gene for Speech
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The archaic human species possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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Neanderthals survived for thousands of years longer than scientists thought, with small lingering bands finding refuge in a massive cave near the southern tip of Spain, new research suggests.
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Palaeontologists have fired a new round in a verbal battle over the Neanderthals, the hominids who were our closest evolutionary cousins before they met a strange and possibly tragic end.
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Description: Two scientists pose a new evolutionary idea: We run, therefore we are. They contend that humans developed the way they did in order to run long distances.
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A new scientific study claims that genes controlling the size and complexity of the brain have evolved more rapidly in humans than they have in any other species - including apes.
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Scientists comparing the DNA sequence of brain genes in several species of primate have found that the genes that specify the architecture of the human brain seem to have started evolving faster some 20 million years ago.
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New findings suggest that some Neanderthals were fair-skinned and redheaded.
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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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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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SALT LAKE CITY Nov 18, 2004 - New research suggests that developing the ability to run long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today
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The brain-eating prehistoric humans also looked different from Neandertals elsewhere in Europe, a new study says.
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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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New research suggests that developing the ability to run &#151; long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man &#151; was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today as humans.
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Endurance running let us evolve to look the way we do - Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances - perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africa&#39;s vast savannah - and the ability to run shaped our anatomy
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Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances - perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africaâs vast savannah â-nd the ability to run shaped our anatomy, making us look like we do today.
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Unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone, scientists have reconstructed a portion of that creature's genetic code -- a technological tour de force that has researchers convinced they will soon know the entire DNA sequence of the closest...
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The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now. The crucial role of running in human evolution, overlooked in previous research, is being proposed in an article