London Zoo unveiled a new exhibition -- eight humans prowling around wearing little more than fig leaves to cover their modesty ( Read more... )

Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI
The Associated Press
Monday, August 22, 2005; 9:06 PMTBILISI, Georgia-Archaeologists in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have unearthed a skull they say is 1.8 million years old-part of a find that holds the oldest traces of humankind’s closest ancestors ever found in Europe ( Read more... )

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Aug. 18, 2005 - Climate changes that affected Africa over a million years ago may have profoundly influenced human evolution, according to a new study published in this week's Science.Overall, the findings support the "variability hypothesis" of human evolution, which holds that alternating humid and dry periods provided the stresses essential for ( Read more... )

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