“The fossils, which may represent a new hominid people, are of a people with a highly unusual mix of archaic and modern anatomical features and are the youngest of their kind ever found in mainland East Asia. The fossils are 14,500 to 11,500 years old, which means these humanoids would have shared the landscape with [...]
“The DNA sequences showed that this individual came from a previously unknown group of extinct humans that have become known as Denisovans. Together with their sister group the Neandertals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans.” http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/m-ego020712.php
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/09/out-of-africas-end/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/science/09fossils.html
September 13, 2010 – Original Source: ScienceDaily Scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a biomedical research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and their colleagues from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Princeton University have recently discovered that viruses that ‘invaded’ the [...]
June 30, 2011 – Original Source: ScienceDaily Modern humans never co-existed with Homo erectus — a finding counter to previous hypotheses of human evolution — new excavations in Indonesia and dating analyses show. The research, reported in the journal PLoS ONE, offers new insights into the nature of human evolution, suggesting a different role for [...]
November 5, 2010 - Original Source: ScienceDaily Evolutionary divergence of humans and chimpanzees likely occurred some 8 million years ago rather than the 5 million year estimate widely accepted by scientists, a new statistical model suggests. The revised estimate of when the human species parted ways from its closest primate relatives should enable scientists to better [...]
