Did Chinese Homo erectus survive into the Late Pleistocene?
14,000-year-old hominin thigh bone has archaic affinities.
Human evolution, Legacy posts
Human evolution
Articles about human evolution, including Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus, Australopithecus, and other early hominins.
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Apes adapted to metabolising ethanol ten million years ago
Humans were preadapted to dietary alcohol consumption.
Human evolution, Legacy posts
Sima de los Huesos hominins are proto-Neanderthals
New study supports ‘accretion’ model.
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Human evolution favoured brain over brawn
Metabolite study demonstrates human muscle and brain tissue underwent disproportionate evolutionary change.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Human evolution, Legacy posts
Did lighter skin colour of Europeans arise during Neolithic?
Study finds evidence of strong positive selection for skin, eye and hair pigmentation over last 5,000 years.
Archaeology & Prehistory, Climate change, Human evolution, Legacy posts
Human footprints up to one million years old discovered at Happisburgh, Norfolk
Footprints left by small group of adults and children are the oldest discovered outside Africa.
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Reassessment of 1950s fossil find provides early evidence for hominins in Central Africa
2.0 to 2.6-million-year-old tooth is from australopithecine or early human.
Behaviour & Cognition, Human evolution, Legacy posts
Study suggests Neanderthals could speak like modern humans
Kebara 2 hyoid bone suggests similar linguistic abilities.
Behaviour & Cognition, Book reviews, Human evolution, Legacy posts
Language and Species, by Derek Bickerton (1990)
An ambitious attempt to place language at the centre of the debate about human evolution.
Behaviour & Cognition, Human evolution, Legacy posts
The Herto remains (Homo sapiens idaltu)
Early modern humans from the Afar Triangle.