Modern Humans
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Originally published | September 2009 |
Authors | Rebecca Stefoff |
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ID | 2235470 |
About Modern Humans
"Describes the rise of modern humans, Homo sapiens, including the theories about our origins and how we spread throughout the world, with information based on the latest fossil and DNA studies"--Provided by publisher.
Nobel Prize goes to Neanderthal DNA research
... His work focused on hominins - the group of Modern Humans that includes us, but also our extinct relatives...
Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out
...New fossils are challenging ideas that Modern Humans wiped out Neanderthals soon after arriving from Africa...
Richard Leakey: Kenyan conservationist dies aged 77
... In his 20s, Leakey made his own important finds, and in two ground-breaking books (Origins and People of the Lake), he explained the emergence of Homo erectus, an ancestor of Modern Humans...
'Ghost', the human ancestors in Western Africa discovered
... hundreds of thousands of years there were several different groups of people, including Modern Humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans...
Homo erectus: Ancient humans survived longer than we thought
...A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright An ancient relative of Modern Humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has revealed...
'All bets now off' on which ape was humanity's ancestor
... Anamensis is the latest in a string of recent discoveries that shows that there was no smooth line of ascent to Modern Humans...