Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women.

Neanderthals, the stocky kin of modern humans, were far more widespread geographically than previously thought, with some trekking into southern Siberia before vanishing about 30,000 years ago, scientists said on Monday.

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Palaeontologists have turned to an unlikely source in a bid to uncover the dietary habits of some of humanity's oldest ancestors. They have studied the teeth of mole rats found in South Africa to bolster the theory that prehistoric hominins may have eaten underground bulbs and tubers, rather than meat or grass.

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I know this is old but I love the homo floresiensis debate.

Scientists have recovered DNA from a Neanderthal that lived 100,000 years ago - the oldest human-type DNA so far ( Read more... )

Researchers have found that the shape of the human skull has changed significantly over the past 650 years.Modern people possess less prominent features but higher foreheads than our medieval ancestors ( Read more... )

Ann Parson, for National Geographic News, January 25, 2006

Through the years dozens of theories have sprung up about why Neandertals (often spelled "Neanderthals") went extinct approximately 30,000 years ago.Those heavy-browed, big-boned hominids who inhabited Europe and parts of Asia for roughly 200,000 years may have met their demise for any ( Read more... )