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Oldest Known Sculpture Is Busty Clue to Brain Boom
From a cave in southwestern Germany, archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known piece of figurative art. More than an ancient artistic impulse, it may signify a profound change in modern human...
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Lousy DNA Reveals When People First Wore Clothes
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexisco — For once lice are nice, at least for scientists investigating the origins of garments. Using DNA to trace the evolutionary split between head and body lice, researchers...
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Neanderthal Genome Shows Most Humans Are Cavemen
After years of anticipation, the Neanderthal genome has been sequenced. It’s not quite complete, but there’s enough for scientists to start comparing it with our own. According to these first...
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Neanderthals Had Feelings, Too
For decades, Neanderthal was cultural shorthand for primitive. Our closest non-living relatives were caricatured as lumbering, slope-browed simpletons unable to keep pace with nimble, quick-witted Homo...
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Fossil Finger DNA Points to New Type of Human
Continued study of an approximately 40,000 year old finger bone from Siberia has identified a previously unknown type of human — one that may have interbred with the ancestors of modern-day Melanesian...
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Spring-Loaded Heels Gave Extra Step to Early Humans
Stone Age people, unlike their Neandertal contemporaries, had heel bones spring-loaded for long runs, a new study suggests. Neandertals weren’t left in the dust, though. The backs of their feet gave...
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Ancient Teeth Show Neanderthals Were Righties
Right-handedness reaches back a half million years in the human evolutionary family, at least if scratched-up fossil teeth have anything to say about it. Stone-tool scratches on the front teeth of...
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Neanderthals Mated With Humans Outside of Africa
By Katie Scott, Wired UK It has been a long held belief that our human ancestors came into contact with Neanderthals, and recent findings not only confirm this, but also suggest exactly how “close”...
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Sheer Numbers Gave Early Humans Edge Over Neanderthals
By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica Between 35,000 and 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals in Europe and Asia were replaced by the first modern humans. Why and how this transition occurred remains somewhat...
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First Painters May Have Been Neanderthal, Not Human
European cave paintings are older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals rather than humans were the earliest painters.
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Humans Blamed for Neanderthal Extinction
A new study of volcanic glass particles concludes that Neanderthals were long gone before any major climatic disruption, thus pinning the blame for their extinction on competition with modern humans.
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