Ancient man 2024, May
Scientists have long puzzled over the mystery: why the brain volume of our ancestors doubled between 1 million years ago and the present
Experts have restored the appearance of an ancient inhabitant of South America. Brazilian experts have reconstructed the appearance of a person who lived on the territory of modern Brazil about 10 thousand years ago
Scientists have long argued about whether natural selection affects humans. For evolution to continue, it is necessary, firstly, to experience the pressure of the environment, and secondly, to produce a lot of offspring - - so that evolution has plenty to choose from
The dream of any student seems to come true: Anat Arzi from the Weizmann Institute (Israel) and her colleagues have shown that we are able to learn new information by snoring peacefully
The story of the mysterious Arkaim find is increasingly overgrown with fantastic, if not just mystical events
Even a first grader has heard a lot about the manipulation of human consciousness today
Experts reported this on the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the mummy A group of specialists from Italy managed to find out what was the voice of a man who lived more than five thousand years ago, whose mummy was discovered in 1991
“Even the most trained and honored athletes today are no match for ancient people,” says Dr. Colin Shaw of the University of Cambridge
Traces of a supernatural intimate connection of the distant past have been found in the DNA of a modern person. NATIVE BLOOD The past is changing for the umpteenth time. There was a time when Neanderthals were considered our direct ancestors
The people who built Stonehenge five thousand years ago probably had the same pale complexion as many in the UK today
The general public still considers Neanderthals to be meat eaters. They say that is why they died out about 25 thousand years ago: they had nothing to eat, while omnivorous sapiens were able to survive
The ancestors of modern Indians migrated to North America 800 years earlier than previously thought. Such conclusions - analysis of a spearhead stuck in the rib of an American mastodon
Man descended from a monkey. Who decided this? Charles Darwin, you say. And you will be wrong. The creator of the theory of natural selection as the main mechanism of evolution never claimed this
On the example of the story of these same supposedly human footprints, which remained next to the paw prints of dinosaurs and whose age is approximately 108-94 million years old, one can see how hard myths can be
Heidelberg man (Homo heidelbergensis) - fossil human species. Heidelberg man is a subspecies of Homo erectus, along with such species as Sinanthropus, Pithecanthropus, etc
Using forensic methods, an Australian anthropologist reconstructed the face of a mysterious Flores man. Homo floresiensis (aka "the hobbit") was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 and sparked a heated discussion
As it was found out with the help of genetic tests, geneticist Valery Ilyinsky tells on the air of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda. Bachenina: - Hello friends. This is "Data Transfer". At the microphone Maria Bachenina
Today there is no longer any doubt that a person of the modern anatomical type originated in Africa
On February 12, 2014, the world celebrated the 205th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. November marks 155 years of his seminal work, The Origin of Species by Natural Selection
Russian biologists Anatoly Vasiliev and Vladimir Vitaliev discovered that modern science is hiding a terrible secret from the public
The most obvious answer to the question of what distinguishes humans from monkeys: the ability to speak. It is believed that humans learned to make and understand speech at a later stage of evolution, when the paths of their ancestors and the ancestors of humanoid apes diverged
This is evidenced by the results of a new study: About a third of the proteins that distinguish modern humans from monkeys have become what they are now, either under the influence of viruses or as a result of fighting them
The closest relatives of the Neanderthals - the oldest representatives of Homo Sapiens - lived in Siberia before its territory was settled by modern humans who later migrated to Melanesia
The history of human origins is the subject of scientific research by many thinkers. This question does not leave a person alone from the moment the ability to think and be guided by the intellect, and not follow instincts
Scientists from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine assure that a person could feel the magnetic field, and therefore, navigate along it without any compass. Like a dove. Since I would have a built-in compass right inside my eyes
The skeleton of the famous Lucy - the great-great-grandmother of all people, a kind of still wild Eve - was discovered in November 1974 during excavations in Ethiopia, which were led by paleontologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray (Donald Johanson and Tom Gray)
The origin of man - forbidden by history “Research of prehistoric time is in crisis today, - written by Colin Renfew in the foreword to his book Before Civilization
People of the modern type have never coexisted with Homo erectus - such a sensational conclusion was made by an international group of scientists led by Etty Indriati from Gadja Mada University (Indonesia) and Susan Anton from New York University
Homo neanderthalensis has become a highly underestimated character in human evolution. Face without a chin, sloping forehead, protruding brow ridges
Paleogeneticists from Germany, the USA, Croatia and Spain came to the conclusion that Cro-Magnons (ancient Homo sapiens) interbred with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) much earlier than previously thought
The DNA of the inhabitants of the Melanesian Islands may contain traces of the DNA of a previously unknown species of people. Geneticist Ryan Bolender spoke about this in his report at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics
The theory of the development of the human race, namely Darwin's theory, as many scientists believe - has outlived itself
In 1913, in Africa, near the town of Boskop, strange bones of a skull were found - disproportionately large. Later, describing them in the journal Nature, researcher Frederick Fitzsimons said: the remains belonged to people who lived about 30 thousand
The position on the origin of man, which has long become a scientific axiom, namely that man originated from a monkey, in our time raises great doubts among many. Geneticists have played a major role in creating such doubts
Neanderthals could have been advanced Stone Age "chemists" - scientists have found hints that the first aborigines of Europe could use manganese dioxide to light fires
Neanderthals Died Out Due To The Fact That They Could Not Come Up With Creativity - Alternative View
Our brothers in mind grew up too early. So they could not stand the competition with people. It has been proven that Neanderthals are a separate kind of people. They differed from us not only in appearance
Depression, addiction to tobacco and the risk of becoming a victim of a stroke - All these not very pleasant, but inalienable "properties" of our body have got to us from the Neanderthals, scientists have found out. Department of Science "Newspapers
Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon lived in the same natural landscape together for 50-24 thousand years. The Neanderthals became extinct, but the Sapiens remained. In ancient humans, brain sizes were 1600-1800 cm3
A new theory of the disappearance of the Neanderthals was put forward by Spanish scientists. In their opinion, modern man simply ate his closest related species
Perhaps even in our time on Earth there are at least two types of Homo sapiens. Some researchers think so, based on paleontological findings of recent years and other reliable sources. Who are you, Neanderthals?