Nov 3, 2009 – Why did leaps in human evolution take place? "First Steps" explores a provocative "big idea" that sharp swings of climate were a key factor. .

Feb 24, 2011 – WASHINGTON — Some 11500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is .

The Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age [1,2]. A Mesolithic fisherman [15kB] The first humans in Ireland are thought to have crossed from Scotland, in wooden boats, .

Aug 30, 2011 – The first fossils of early modern humans to be identified were found in 1868 in a 27,000-23000 year old rock shelter site near the village of Les .

Dec 28, 2010 – Until now, scientists believed that homo sapiens, the direct descendants of modern man, evolved in Africa about 200000 years ago and .

Jul 7, 2011 – Early humans wore jewelry and likely practiced cannibalism, suggest remains of the earliest known Homo sapiens from southeastern Europe.

Earliest Humans in China. Since 2001, the Human Origins Program has collaborated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to study the oldest clues to the .

Estimates of the earliest dates of human colonization in America area have traditionally varied between 12000-16000 BP, the latter occurring at Monte Verde , .

Dec 27, 2005 – Two archaeologists are proposing an alternative explanation .

The first debates about the nature of human evolution arose between Thomas .

Oct 27, 2010 – Read 'Very early photographic images of humans discovered' from our blog The Upshot on Yahoo! News. In the steady barrage of images that .

Feb 16, 2011 – Archaeologist John Shea believes that experts have been focusing on the wrong measurement of early human behaviour - 'behavioural .

Feb 14, 2011 – New research suggests that "behavioral modernity" is a flawed concept. In truth, early humans were not much different from us.

Jul 12, 2001 – In a valley of Ethiopia, a team of scientists unearthed the fossilized remains of what they believe is humanity's earliest known ancestor—a .

Feb 14, 2011 – (PhysOrg.com) -- That human evolution follows a progressive trajectory is one of the most deeply-entrenched assumptions about our species.

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Feb 14, 2011 – That human evolution follows a progressive trajectory is one of the most deeply- entrenched assumptions about our species.

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Oct 14, 2011 – Scientists have unearthed a tool kit for making paint in a South African cave. At 100000 years old, it looks to be the oldest evidence of .

Oct 21, 2009 – Humans were settled on open grassland in Africa as early as 2 million years ago, making stone tools and using them to butcher zebra and .

Early human migrations began when Homo erectus first migrated out of Africa over the Levantine corridor and Horn of Africa to Eurasia about 1.8 million years .

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Aug 19, 2011 – Handaxes, used by early humans as multipurpose tools for butchering animals, making other stone tools and chopping wood. They were the .

The British Museum research project at Happisburgh, Norfolk has uncovered evidence that revolutionises what we think about the earliest human occupation of .

These hominids will be important in terms of understanding the early phases of human evolution before Lucy. With permit from the Authority for Research and .

Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old.

Jul 28, 2011 – Neanderthals in Europe died out because they were overrun by hordes of modern humans from Africa who flooded into the region 40000 years .

Mar 11, 2011 – Cave divers have found what may be the earliest trace of human beings in the Americas, hidden in a submerged cave.

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Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy .

Jun 10, 2011 – Early Modern Human Culture. Early modern Homo sapiens in .

Feb 14, 2011 – New research suggests that "behavioral modernity" is a flawed concept. In truth, early humans were not much different from us, .

Aug 22, 2008 – The world's first known modern human was a tall, thin individual -- probably male -- who lived around 200000 years ago and resembled .

Early evidence of fire vs. skeptics; wildfires; stages in human control of fire. Poss. genetic adaptation to cooked food; lactose, gluten intolerance.

Jump to The first spark of life‎: Life began when one of these complex organic molecules began reacting with the other molecules around it in an unusual .

Oct 17, 2007 – Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex bladelet tools and using red .

In this article, we'll examine scientific research that shows how the earliest humans spread across the globe, and we'll look at modern migration patterns. .

Suffice it to say that the early human-like forms were first discovered in the early 20th century in South Africa; then the Leakeys spent 30 years in Tanzania, East .

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Relating to or being an early form or subspecies of Homo sapiens, anatomically distinct from modern humans. Neanderthals in Europe and Solo man in Asia are .

Oct 1, 2009 – Ancient Skeleton May Rewrite Earliest Chapter of Human Evolution - ScienceNOW.

Sep 23, 2011 – New evidence suggests aboriginal Australians may be directly descended from the earliest of several human groups that left Africa and .

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Feb 9, 2011 – Earliest Humans Come Under Scrutiny After Discovery.

Feb 16, 2005 – Such studies can be extrapolated to determine when the .

Oct 1, 2009 – The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor. .

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