Tag: Early Humans
Lucy had neighbors: A review of African fossils
The left half of the lower jaw of Australopithecus deyiremeda (BRT-VP-3/14), a 3.5 to 3.3 million-year-old human ancestor species discovered by the Woranso-Mille project.Credit:...
Ancient DNA study finds Phoenician from Carthage had European ancestry
A research team co-led by a scientist at New Zealand's University of Otago has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2500-year-old Phoenician...
The pyrophilic primate
Anthropogenic burning in Hadza country.Credit: James F. O'Connell
Fire, a tool broadly used for cooking, constructing, hunting and even communicating, was arguably one of the...
Neanderthals may have been infected by diseases carried out of Africa...
A new study suggests that Neanderthals across Europe may well have been infected with diseases carried out of Africa by waves of anatomically modern...
