News articles tagged with 'Homo'
Ancient teeth raise new questions about the origins of modern man
— 10 Feb 2011 18:40 | Geology and palaeontologyEight small teeth found in a cave near Rosh Haain, central Israel, are raising big questions about the earliest existence of humans and where we may have originated, says Binghamton…
Synchrotron reveals human children outpaced Neanderthals by slowing down
— 16 Nov 2010 11:24 | Geology and palaeontologyHuman childhood is considerably longer than chimpanzees, our closest-living ape relatives. A multinational team of specialists, led by researchers from Harvard University, Max-Planck…
Neanderthals had feelings too, say University of York researchers
— 6 Oct 2010 06:05 | Geology and palaeontologyPioneering new research by archaeologists at the University of York suggests that Neanderthals belied their primitive reputation and had a deep seated sense of compassion…
Crocs and fish the key to human evolution
— 17 Jun 2010 12:51 | BiologyAlmost two million years ago, early humans began eating food such as crocodiles, turtles and fish - a diet that could have played an important role in the evolution of human brains…
New hominid shares traits with Homo species
— 9 Apr 2010 11:03 | Geology and palaeontologyTwo partial skeletons unearthed from a cave in South Africa belong to a previously unclassified species of hominid that is now shedding new light on the evolution of our own species,…
Texas A and M anthropologist helps identify new species of Homo-like fossil found in South Africa
— 9 Apr 2010 10:21 | Geology and palaeontologyTwo well-preserved skeletons of a human ancestor never before seen have been discovered in South Africa by a team that includes a Texas A and M University anthropologist…
Is the Hobbit's brain unfeasibly small?
— 27 Jan 2010 13:09 | Geology and palaeontologyHomo floresiensis, a pygmy-sized small-brained hominin popularly known as 'the Hobbit' was discovered five years ago, but controversy continues over whether the small brain is actually…
'Hobbits' are a new human species - according to the statistical analysis of fossils
— 21 Nov 2009 09:42 | Geology and palaeontologyResearchers from Stony Brook University Medical Centre in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed…
2-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
— 21 Oct 2009 10:50 | Geology and palaeontologyIn an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on 21 October, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of…
Island life - a probable reason for hobbit's small brain
— 6 May 2009 17:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe hobbit, Homo floresiensis, may have had a tiny brain because it lived on an island, according to a new study published in the recent (7 May 2009) issue of the scientific journal…