Ancient man 2024, April
A skilled man is Homo habilis - Homo habilis - the first representative of the human race, whose fossil remains were discovered in November 1960
Archaic people left Africa more than 2.12 million years ago - much earlier than scientists thought
Currently, the scientific world considers humans as a species of primates that have existed for about 40 thousand years
Geneticists have found fragments of genes responsible for the assimilation of chitin in the DNA of humans and all other mammals, according to an article published in the journal Science Advances
He isolated DNA from Egyptian mummies. He discovered the Denisovans, an extinct species of ancient man, by sequencing DNA from a tiny piece of bone
In fact, it is difficult to say for sure here, tk. There are many hypotheses. Here are the most serious and plausible Immediately it is necessary to make a reservation that the hair has not disappeared anywhere
In early May 2013, erosion of coastal cliffs in the area of Haysborough (Norfolk, UK) exposed soils dating from the early Pleistocene (1 - 0.78 million years ago) - " layered silt
A peculiar "signature" of a Neanderthal craftsman on a stone tool found in Crimea indicated that Neanderthals had the ability to think abstractly, according to an article published in PLoS One
Five years ago in South Africa, scientists discovered Homo naledi - a species of hominids that lived side by side with the ancestors of modern humans. This find could change all our ideas about evolution
Scientists have explored a cave site in eastern Africa, where people have lived for 78 thousand years - from stone to iron age
Unique fossil footprints have shown that hunting could be one of the reasons for the extinction of giant sloths in America
Scientists at Oxford University (England) have discovered remains belonging to an ancient man outside Africa and the Levant. The find is about one hundred thousand years old
Scientists have explained why people abandoned the massive brow ridges that distinguished our distant ancestors. In ancient times, beauty standards were markedly different from today's
Ancient tools discovered in Britain show that people lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than was believed
The origin of man is a mystery. Even Darwin's theory is not considered fully proven, due to the absence of transitional links in evolution. How else do people explain their appearance from ancient times to the present day
Neanderthals continue to break stereotypes. For a long time they were considered to be rude and stupid relatives of intelligent people, but a number of recent studies completely refute this opinion
Scientists at the University of Washington were the first to extract nicotine from the tartar of ancient people. The discovery will allow us to learn more about the use of intoxicating plants by the ancestors of modern man
In 1967, bones were found near the Omo River in southern Ethiopia, over which various studies were carried out for forty years. All research results were combined in one special issue of the journal
An international team of scientists from Germany, Italy and Spain found that Neanderthals were able to create images, indicating the emergence of the rudiments of culture. This was reported in a press release on EurekAlert
Or again about strange turtles Scientists have discovered supernatural mutations in Pharaoh Akhenaten
Danish scientists examined a bun of hair from an ancient Greenlandic and concluded that the first inhabitants of the North American Arctic were from North Asia, New Scientist reports
It seems that giants and dwarfs once lived on earth. Photo: The thigh bone of a giant, discovered in 1950 during the construction of a highway in southeastern Turkey
The blue color appeared in human history relatively recently - at least in the form in which we know it now, it was not for a long time
In the journal Nature, a study was published that described how scientists were able to find traces of natural remedies such as antibiotics and pain relievers on a sick Neanderthal man's teeth. About Gazeta.ru writes
According to the latest research, nomads from the steppe regions of modern southern Russia played an important role in the formation of the population and languages of today's Europe. The population of today's Central Europe comes from peoples who migrated from
Scientists from the Kyoto University of Science conducted a series of experiments with representatives of various groups of primates and put forward an interesting theory. Japanese experts believe that monkeys could have descended from humans, and not vice versa
An international team of scientists found that in the territory of southern Iberia, which is now part of modern Spain, Neanderthals lived at least 3000 years longer than their rest gather in other regions
The oldest footprints of man At the base of the Italian Alps, 3-4 million years ago, a warm sea lapped; after it there were many layers of rock containing marine fossils
Scientists still cannot clearly explain the phenomenon of the appearance on our planet of a Cro-Magnon man - a person of the modern type
Scientists managed to determine the time when the human race was divided into groups, which later became isolated from each other and turned into modern races
Most of the human genome is represented by the so-called "junk DNA" - free pieces of genetic code
An international team of paleontologists has revised the time and place of origin of Homo sapiens. A related study published in the journal Nature, briefly reported by Science News
Neanderthals. How many were there? Archaeologists and geneticists give different answers. New research should help them come to a consensus and shed light on the forgotten history of these ancient people. Including rather early extinction
A group of geneticists from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) claims: a hitherto unknown archaic species of Homo, a "cousin" of the Neanderthals, who lived in Africa for another 25 thousand
An international group of scientists found out when there was a division of Homo sapiens into separate groups
On Tuesday, September 2, a message appeared on the websites of news agencies that the age of the oldest representative of the genus Homo, also known as the "great man from Chad," or Tumai, was determined incorrectly
Most modern European men are descendants of just three genera from the Bronze Age, according to geneticists from the University of Leicester
Half of all representatives of the stronger sex, who are indigenous to Western Europe, turned out to be the descendants of the same patriarch. Such an interesting conclusion was made by an international group of scientists who analyzed the DNA of several thousand Europeans
Healers of the new stone age knew how to carry out complex operations for amputation of limbs, moreover, with anesthesia and under sterile conditions
The decline in testosterone levels in ancient humans 50 thousand years ago was the beginning of the development of culture and communication. This was reflected in the structure of the skulls, the brow ridges decreased and in general, the upper part of the face became shorter