Ancient man 2024, May
Mr. Darwin argued that the distant, distant ancestors of man lived in trees, and walked on the ground on four legs. Well, former monkeys, let's look at ourselves in the mirror! Yes, we are far from being Tarzans … Our entire musculoskeletal system, large and inflexible legs, weak arms are clearly not adapted for rapid movement through trees in the proprietary monkey way: by swinging and throwing the body from branch to branch. N
Mentions of people who have lived for 900 years or more are not only in the Bible. Ancient texts belonging to a wide variety of cultures tell of elders whose age seems completely impossible to modern man.Mentions of people who have lived for 900 years or more are not only in the Bible
Elements of primitive religions are constantly present in our modern society. They arise, develop, "die" and reappear in a new form. They are so naturally "intertwined" in our daily life that we use fetishes and totems and animism (only in their modern form), without even noticing it
Scientist of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) Alexei Melkikh proposed an alternative to Darwinism - this is the theory of directed evolution, the university reported on Tuesday.“The evolution of life is determined not by spontaneous natural selection, but by the processes of quantum mechanics in the cell nucleus - exactly according to this principle, the interaction of the“building blocks”of proteins and DNA takes place. This
Perhaps we will never know if there actually existed wild people who were called the Nittaevo tribe. The mysterious dwarfs were exterminated by their more advanced relatives and disappeared, leaving only legends about themselves.- Salik.bizThe legends about thief dwarfsIn 1887, the English traveler Hugo Neville heard about this tribe from a Sinhalese hunter
Chinese anthropologists have discovered the remains of an ancient child who lived more than 100-200 thousand years ago, whose molars began to erupt. This is the oldest such find in East Asia. Reported by Science News
Over the years, artists have portrayed Neanderthals as stooped creatures, not unlike monkeys
Where did primitive people come from and what were they like?Primitive people are the very first people who appeared on our Earth, people who were the first, that is, our earliest ancestors. Where did primitive people come from? Since the writing did not appear immediately, there are no historical reliable written documents about our origin
Scientists have found a genetic similarity between creatures of two seemingly completely different species.Similar genetic traits of Neanderthals and mammoths were discovered by Professor Ran Barkai and his colleague Meidad Kislev of Tel Aviv University, Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, according to the university's website
About 50 thousand years ago people lived in the Philippines, whose height was probably even less than the growth of the famous "hobbits" from the island of Flores. That is, these little men were about a meter high or even lower.Finding these remains could make significant changes to the human evolutionary tree, despite the fact that only a few bones and teeth have been found
About 120 thousand years ago, in Europe, on the territory of present-day France, the climate began to slowly change, which primarily affected animals
Many people fantasize about how people will look in 500 or a thousand years, how evolution will take place and the structure of human bodies will change
An interesting discovery was made recently by American biologists from the US National Institutes of Health - modern humans inherited genes from Neanderthals that contribute to depression, nicotine addiction, obesity and other disorders
Many stories are like fairy tales. However, no one can claim that this was not the case. Lucien Camille Claire, great-grandfather of the writer David Claire, was born in Alsatian Lorraine in the middle of the 19th century
How Neanderthals managed to survive the harsh Ice Age - still remains an unsolved mystery for scientists
Scientists sent soil samples from the Sukhaya Mechetka site in Volgograd to Moscow and Leipzig to find out the time of the appearance of primitive man in this area, RIA Novosti was told at the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Life during the Ice Age was not easy, but it appears that Neanderthals suffered more than just the weather and lack of food. It turned out that they also had to fight with giant birds of prey
In recent years, we have heard a lot about our extinct relatives - Neanderthals, especially when it turned out that we also have their genes, writes the Danish scientific publication "Wiedenskab"
Humanity is already 300 thousand years old, but its behavior has changed little since primitive times. What skills and advantages have enabled him to become the "crown of nature"? Did our ancestors interbreed with Neanderthals and Denisovans - other types of ancient people?
Scientists assure: our extinct ancestors could work with pinpoint precision. Awkward and crooked - what many people think were the Neanderthals - representatives of an extinct human species
Anthropologists have recreated the ribcage of our extinct brothers in mind and realized that they had previously imagined them wrong. Neanderthals were not what they are considered to be - by no means hunched over bumps
In the scientific world, it is generally accepted that the first people on our planet lived in Africa. Proof of this can be found in the fossils found during archaeological excavations and the results of genetic studies
Versions about the appearance of people on Earth are so diverse that not every person reflecting on this topic will be able to single out the true version for himself. Each theory has something of its own, special, but they are all so different
The idea that our humanoid ancestors went through a long aquatic phase in their development was put forward by the remarkable British marine biologist Sir Alistair Hardy (1896-1985) in an article published in New Scientist magazine in 1960
Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the Indonesian hobbit, is again at the center of the debate. A new scan of the skull showed that it was not a separate species, but an ordinary person. More precisely, little man
European paleontologists say the Neanderthals appear to have been good navigators. It is possible that their skills in the field of the development of sea spaces exceeded those of Homo Sapiens
It turns out that the Neanderthals not only ate each other, but also made tools of labor from the bones of their fallen comrades - these are the conclusions reached by a team of researchers who carefully studied the bones of our relatives. What all this has led us now and find out
South African scientists find a new unique fossil during an expedition to the Sterkfontein caves
Indian scientists have discovered a primate jaw in the west of the country, which is estimated to be 10-11 million years old. The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE and is briefly described by Phys.org
There are many museum reconstructions and depictions of a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer roaming Europe, and this hunter-gatherer looks like a modern European with fair skin
Scientists have discovered that a mysterious species of man lived on the Tibetan plateau long before the appearance of modern people
Anthropologists from the University of Washington, USA, found that many people of the Pleistocene era had developmental abnormalities. A press release with the results of the study was published on Phys.org
In December 2018, the scientific world was shocked by news about the study of the skeleton of a prehistoric humanoid creature called "Littlefoot" and the scientific name of Australopithecus Prometheus
In China, a modern-type human skull was found, which turned out to be at least 10,113 years old. Xinhua News Agency reported. The skull was found in the Zhalainor region, Inner Mongolia, which is located near the borders of Russia and Mongolia
Anthropologists have studied the bones of a humanoid creature that lived 3.67 million years ago and is known in science as skeleton number StW 573. Among his people affectionately called "Littlefoot"
Erect people, the first representatives of our kind, lost the competitive struggle to their descendants because of "laziness" - inability to make complex tools. Anthropologists who published an article in the magazine PLoS One write about this
Russian and foreign paleogenetics extracted DNA from the remains of ancient people found six years ago in the Denisova cave in Altai, and found that some of them were "hybrids" of Neanderthals and "Denisovans"
The development of speech and language in humans was not influenced by the gene that was previously considered the main evolutionary engine for the acquisition of these skills. Scientists came to this conclusion by comparing the genetic data of modern humans and Neanderthals
Where did we come from and what exactly does the word “such” mean?
Man, as a biological being, possesses a number of such traits, which are far from the best suited to the surrounding natural conditions. This allows us to put forward some assumptions about his past. Introduction