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Bookmark Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought | Fossils…
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought | Fossils…
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans | New…
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like TODAY, there…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Fossil evidence of mysterious 'southern Denisovans' yet to be found | Natural…
Island Southeast Asia contains one of the world's richest fossil records documenting human evolution. Some of these fossils date to at least 1.3 million years ago.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
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November 22 2017, 12:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Benjamin Kunkel reviews ‘The Birth of the Anthropocene’ by Jeremy Davies, ‘Capitalism…
How is the ecological predicament of the 21st century to be conceived of? Politically, how is it to be confronted, and by whom? The basic features of the problem are plain…

March 11 2017, 5:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Small brown pebble found on East Sussex beach is pickled dinosaur brain
The first fossilised dinosaur brain has been found on a beach in East Sussex and could show that the extinct giants were more intelligent than first thought. The small brown pebble…

November 4 2016, 7:07am | Comments
Podcast Cache Masters of the Anthropocene Boundary | Generation Anthropocene
It’s our 50th episode! To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding whether or not we formally adopt the Anthropocene into the geologic time table. We…

October 6 2016, 9:17am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals were stereotyped as savages for a century — all because of…
When anthropologists discover a new set of hominid fossils, the first questions are obvious: What is this creature? Where does it fit in on the evolutionary tree? But it has to…

September 28 2016, 1:38am | Comments
Bookmark Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables - Bloomberg Business
The race for renewable energy has passed a turning point. The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined. And there's…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Ancient Humans May Have Left a Genetic Mark on Neanderthals Carl Zimmer…
In 1997, scientists found the first scrap of Neanderthal DNA in a fossil. Since then, they have recovered genetic material, even entire genomes, from a number of Neanderthal bones, and their…

February 17 2016, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Humans have made so much plastic it will probably show up in…
Future archeologists aren’t just going to be digging up old bones: Looks like they’re also going to be sifting though old fossilized plastics. For years, scientists have questioned whether or not…

January 31 2016, 9:14am | Comments
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Some of us may remain as fossils

December 20 2015, 12:59am | Comments
Bookmark The Theological Questions Raised by the Homo Naledi Fossils - The Atlantic
Earlier this month, scientists working in South Africa made an exciting announcement: They had discovered a new species of human ancestor.

October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark If We Cloned Early Humans, Should We Put Them in a Zoo…
Let’s say someone successfully cloned human ancestors. Then what? Are they like chimps, to be put in a zoo or a nature reserve? Do they need carers? Should we enroll them…

July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments
Bookmark Here Are Imaginary Fossils from a Post-Human Earth | The Creators Project
Telofossils II, 2015. Images courtesy XPO Gallery and the artist We don't have a time machine (that we know of—yet), but we can still get a theoretical idea about what our…

May 19 2015, 4:17pm | Comments
Bookmark I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Plastiglomerate - Scientific…
Humanity inscribes itself into the rock record of Earth’s history. People now move more sediment than all the world’s rivers combined. Fossil fuel burning has changed the composition of the atmosphere.

May 14 2015, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life
n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark Brave New Epoch - Issue 9: Time - Nautilus
A sheet of glass stretches along the entryway of the University of Leicester’s geology department. The glass protects a collection of fossils that are mounted to the wall in swirls, as…

February 11 2014, 1:02am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals smart enough to copy humans
Fossils and artefacts pulled from the Grotte du Renne cave in central France present anthropologists with a Pleistocene puzzle. Strewn among the remains of prehistoric mammals are the bones of Neanderthals,…

December 31 2012, 6:52am | Comments
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What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011

December 20 2011, 5:53pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthal Neuroscience
As scientists began to build a database of human DNA in the 1990s, it became possible to test these ideas with genes. In his talk, Paabo described how he and his…

November 21 2011, 2:09am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals really were sex-obsessed thugs
Neanderthals really did act like Neanderthals, new research suggests, as our early relatives were found to be more aggressive, competitive and promiscuous than modern man. Scientists examining fossils have discovered that…

November 3 2010, 1:30am | Comments
Bookmark Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves
Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths. In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with massive…

October 22 2010, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark Ancient death-grip leaf scars reveal ant–fungal parasitism
Parasites commonly manipulate host behaviour, and among the most dramatic examples are diverse fungi that cause insects to die attached to leaves. This death-grip behaviour functions to place insects in an…

August 19 2010, 8:40am | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals may have interbred with humans
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they're not forgotten — at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world…

April 21 2010, 1:50am | Comments
Bookmark Missing link between man and apes found
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week. Scientists believe the…

April 4 2010, 3:45am | Comments
Bookmark Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it…

July 20 2009, 7:01pm | Comments
Bookmark The extent of Darwin’s impact on 19th-century artists
It’s hard to exaggerate just how widely Darwin’s ideas on natural selection and the evolution of human kind traveled in the cultural milieu of his day, even in the age of…

June 11 2009, 2:49am | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments

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