A recent study revealed that ancient stone tools used by our human ancestors more than 2 million years ago may have been responsible for sparking communication between early humans. Our human ancestors who lived in the African savanna more than 2.5 million years ago started to craft rocks into sharp tools in order to hunt, kill and eat their prey. The early humans used stone tools to cut apart … [Read more...]
Earliest Human Engraving Believed to Be 500,000 Years Old
Human engraving discoveries have always set off massive uproars in the world of science and paleoanthropology. The human race is at this point the only species that has managed to develop a creative mind, no other primate having evolved enough to use non-functional markings so far. The engravings in question were discovered on the shell of a clam that has spent nearly a century in a museum. … [Read more...]
Neanderthal-Human Skulls Shed Light on Evolution
Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans’ biological history. But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries. In a paper in the journal Nature, scientists reported Wednesday that they had retrieved ancient human DNA from a fossil dating back about 400,000 years, shattering the previous record of 100,000 years. The most well-known late … [Read more...]
Human Muscles, Brain traded off their energy use – Evolution study
A new study has made a ‘weedy’ revelation about the human evolution. According to the researchers, essential molecules have changed more rapidly in human muscle than in the brain over the course of evolution. During the study, the researchers found that the rate of change in muscle was 10 times that seen in chimpanzees. Comparatively, the molecules in the human brain had evolved four times … [Read more...]
